How do I access my Mac hard drive from my Windows OS?

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How do I access my Mac hard drive from my Windows OS?

I recently bought a MacBook Pro and had it partitioned into two hard drives, 65 gig of mac and 35 gig of windows, which will mostly be for games. However, when I am running OS X, i can explore the windows hard drive, but when I run XP, I can't explore the Mac hard drive. I turned file sharing on, so I thought I should be able to. My main reason for this question is because I moved my music to the mac side, and I want windows to be able to access it so that I dont have to store it on both sides. Thanks so much!

Posted on Jul 1, 2006 9:22 AM

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Jul 1, 2006 12:57 PM in response to josh7706

Hi Josh!

If you're sharing from Mac to Windows then obviously your network connection is working fine. What happens when you try to share from Windows to Mac? Are you getting error messages?

I highly suggest using SharePoints to create the Windows shares on your Mac. Then on your Windows machine go to Start --> Run and enter something like "\\MacIPaddress\newshare".

Hope this helps! bill

1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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Jul 1, 2006 7:44 PM in response to mecklists

Alright, well I did some research on my own, and from macworld.com i learned that i needed MacDrive to do this. The problem with this is that is it $50. I have a trial version right now, but that only lasts 4 more days. With this sharepoints thing, however, does it accomplish the same thing? I sorta confused on exactly what it does. Thanks!

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Jul 1, 2006 8:14 PM in response to josh7706

Hi Josh!

Apologies. I failed to read your entire post and only understood it as accessing files between two computers and not on the same computer.

What are you using to run Windows on your Mac? Boot Camp or Parallels? Parallels has a feature to share files between systems.

Hope this helps! bill

1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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Jul 1, 2006 8:28 PM in response to mecklists

ahh! I am using BootCamp... at this stage, it will likely be cheaper and easier to just purchase MacDrive. With my student discount hopefully I can get it at a comparative price. Thanks for your help!

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