Can I decrypt Time Machine for Windows?

So a couple months ago I needed to sell my MBP Retina to cover some car expenses. I knew I would get another Macbook or laptop at some point, so I got my buddy to back up my hard drive on his external HDD. Little did did I know using time machine encrypted everything to Mac files, and the HDD became unreadable when plugged into his Windows.

well now I'm considering a Macbook Air, or a Surface Pro 3. Well, if I go with the Surface, how can I upload all of my files onto it's hard drive if the external is encrypted using Time Machine. I could care less about some of my files, but I have about 20 GBs of music on the external that I in no way want to lose. Any advice would help.

Posted on Jul 28, 2014 7:11 PM

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Loner T

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Jul 30, 2014 2:46 PM in response to BobHarris

Please see this as well - http://askubuntu.com/questions/332315/how-to-read-and-write-hfs-journaled-extern al-hdd-in-ubuntu-without-access-to-os.

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