Accessing Mac Hard Drives from Windows 7/8: Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07
If you want to read a Mac HFS+ formatted disk from Windows 7/8 then you can use the Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033.
It is a large download (about half a gigabyte, uncompressed 800+ megabyte) of which you need only this file:
- BootCamp5.0.5033.zip\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi
When you want to write HFS+, then MacDrive works fine and has a 5-day fully functional trial (so you can verify really large files transfer fine).
The other way around is built in, but not enabled by default. To have a Mac read and write NTFS volumes, you have to edit your /etc/fstab file as explained in will mountain lion read/write to an…: Apple Support Communities to which I added some hyperlinks. Note there are also NTFSFree and OSXFuse (which is the successor of MacFuse).
- Uninstall other 3rd-party NTFS software, like Paragon, Tuxera or NTFS-3G.
- Edit
/etc/fstab(you can do this with “sudo nano /etc/fstab” as Carlos suggested- Add the following line:
LABEL="THE_NAME_OF_YOUR_VOLUME" none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse- Quit your editor (if you used nano, you can do this with Control-X, Y, Enter as Carlos said)
- Reboot, or if you prefer just unmount and re-mount the partition using Disk Utility
Voila! You have read-write support for this partition in OSX
As an alternative of modifying /etc/fstab, you can also create an interposer for the /sbin/mount_ntfs script: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard – MacRumors Forums.
–jeroen
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