Is it possible to install Apple's HFS+ driver individually(without installing the whole bootcamp driver package)?

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Is it possible to install Apple's HFS+ driver individually(without installing the whole bootcamp driver package)?

Without getting into the details of my situation:

One of the boot camp drivers is an HFS+ driver that gives Windows 7 native HFS+ read support. I am looking for a way to install this driver individually, without having to install the whole boot camp driver package again. On the Snow Leopard disk, I've looked in the Boot Camp/Drivers/Apple folder, and there are individual executables for all of the device drivers(video, sound, trackpad, isight, etc), but I don't see one for the HFS+ driver.

Can anyone help me?

Posted on May 8, 2011 12:14 PM

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The hatter

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May 8, 2011 12:18 PM in response to Jon R

You might want to buy HFS9 from Paragon or MacDrive

AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys

c:/windows/systems32/drivers/

Some programs have "repair" install also. I assume you went in and renamed those two files.

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Jon R Author

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May 8, 2011 12:24 PM in response to The hatter

Those files are there. I didn't rename anything.

My problem is that I'm running my bootcamp partition through vmware fusion in os x. If I boot Windows 7 natively, it sees my OS X partition, but when I boot it in vmware fusion, it doesn't. I thought vmware tools might have gotten rid of the HFS+ driver, but since those files are there, I guess it didn't.

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The hatter

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May 8, 2011 12:32 PM in response to Jon R

How VMware maps folders and ownership will obvioulsy be different.

Leaving out that this was in Fusion, also means it really isn't a Boot Camp thing. I haven't used Fusion in years and you are better off asking them. But you always even before Apple added HFS read-only.

Also, just a fwiw if you haven't upgraded 7 to SP1 - when you do, do so 'natively' instead of in Fusion.

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