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p@mast3rs wrote on 6/16/2005, 12:28 PM
Yep. MacDrive for PC will open it and even let you burn CD/DVDs for Macs.

www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/
Coursedesign wrote on 6/16/2005, 12:31 PM
If it's a Mac-formatted drive, you need software help.

I use Transmac, it works well, shareware.

Download it at Tucows

Trichome wrote on 6/16/2005, 12:31 PM
I too have run into this situation. Would love to know...
B_JM wrote on 6/16/2005, 12:35 PM

pmasters is right --

mediafour works great, I use it all the time ... SOMETIMES it will not read a firewire mac drive though (ive had problems with some lacie drives) , but i just remove the harddrive and mount it on a IDE buss

jkrepner wrote on 6/16/2005, 1:16 PM
Perfect. I'll give it a shot!

Good to know that this is an option going forward.

Jeff
fwtep wrote on 6/17/2005, 12:11 AM
I've used MacDrive for over a year now (though I don't need it often) and haven't had any troubles, not even with a Lacie firewire drive. There's another program, MacOpener, which as of last year didn't work with firewire drives. I don't know if they've addressed that yet or not.

Fred
jkrepner wrote on 6/17/2005, 7:05 AM
Neither program worked. This is a mini "Smart Drive" that gets power from either FW400 or USB2. MAc Drive 6 keeps asking me if I want to format the drive. Unless I'm mistaken, that'll wipe clean.

Oh, well.

Thanks guys.

Jeff
gjviii wrote on 6/17/2005, 7:44 AM
Finally something I can help with. 2 years !!!!!!!

Anyway, I would use Super WinPE. Once it sees the files transfer them over to your hard drive.

I have had customers use this techique for pulling Mac files in the past
jkrepner wrote on 6/17/2005, 8:02 AM
I couldn't find anything for Super WinPE when I did a search that seemed to pertain to opening Mac files. Do you have a link?

Thanks.,

B_JM wrote on 6/17/2005, 8:20 AM
mini smart drive might not be supported - can you put it into a laptop and extract the files that way ? (been there - done that) ....

I have had problems with some firewire drives in the past - as mentioned, ive used many with mac formated drives..

worse case - send drive to someone with a mac and copy them over to your firewire drive that you have .. maybe a store would let you borrow one for a hour in the store.

have you tried both the usb and FW connections?
jkrepner wrote on 6/17/2005, 10:57 AM
B_JM,

Thanks. Yeah I tried both USB and FW. I doubt that the Mini Drive is supported. They are going to send me a drive that has been formated NTFS with the files I need. So this issue is "closed." But I'm glad I found out about those utilities though, I'm sure it will be useful one day.

Thanks!

Jeff