Q: External Mac hard drive to be viewed on Windows OS

I took the hard drive out of an old Mac 6116 that was in a house fire. I don't think the hard drive suffered smoke or water damage so I want to mount it in an external USB enclosure and look at the contents on a Windows 7 laptop.

Is there a program that I need on the PC to do this?

Posted on Aug 18, 2013 1:56 PM

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Niel Aug 18, 2013 1:57 PM in response to isteppenwolf
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Aug 18, 2013 1:57 PM in response to isteppenwolf

Use the MacDrive trial.

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by Allan Eckert,

Allan Eckert Aug 18, 2013 1:58 PM in response to isteppenwolf
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Aug 18, 2013 1:58 PM in response to isteppenwolf

Try MacDrive

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isteppenwolf Aug 18, 2013 2:36 PM in response to Niel
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Aug 18, 2013 2:36 PM in response to Niel

I heard about something called HFSExplorer as a read only program and it's free from what I understand.

There should be no reason to write to this HDD however I may want to pull some photo's and maybe some txt files.

I'm guessing that the trial version of MacDrive might limit use in the trial version; otherwise what would be the benefits?

Thanks again to both Niel and Allan
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Niel Aug 18, 2013 3:03 PM in response to isteppenwolf
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Aug 18, 2013 3:03 PM in response to isteppenwolf

The trial contains all the features but will only work for five days.

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by Allan Jones,

Allan Jones Aug 18, 2013 3:42 PM in response to isteppenwolf
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Aug 18, 2013 3:42 PM in response to isteppenwolf

...so I want to mount it in an external USB enclosure

The drive in our 61XX PowerMac is a 50-pin SCSI, as are the others in this series I've worked on. Did you find a drive enclosure that accepts SCSI drives?

I'd love to know where as that is a fairly common inquiry that comes up here. To date I've not seen an answer.
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