I just bought my mac mini (mac os x yosemite) and installed windows 7 professional 64 bit onto it using boot camp.
There's no problem with my windows 7. Just that I cannot see my mac partition on windows 7.
I had an old mac using mac os x mavericks and I installed windows 7 on it as well.
I can see my mac partition on windows 7.
May I know how to fix it?
Thanks a lot
Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
However, I am able to see my windows partition in mac os x yosemite.
Could someone please help me with this?
thanks
This is because windows 7 does not know how to read the HFS+ file system that OS X uses.
Windows needs to install a third party driver to do that. AFAIK there are two products that do that: MacDrive and HFS win
OS X *does* know how to read FAT32, NTFS xFAT systems that windows uses
I forgot to mention that those products offer trial versions that you can install to see if they suit your needs.
Warning: Don't install them simultaneously as they will trip on each other.
Once Windows is installed via Boot Camp, and you've installed the initial drivers and software Apple supplies for your Mac, you then run Apple Software Update from within Windows to install all other Boot Camp updates for Windows. After all updates have been installed, Mac formatted drives will show up in Windows. You'll be able to read and copy items from them, but not write or delete.
I believe I have installed all the drivers from bootcamp already.
I run Apple Software Update.
It only shows three softwares to be downloaded. 1. iCloud For Windows 2. iTunes 3. Quicktime
Hmm. Not having an issue with it here. I'll request that the hosts move this topic to the Boot Camp partition. More folks who watch that forum to answer questions will see it then. You may then have better luck getting a working solution.
Please see windows 8 does not recognise Macintosh HD, No drive Letter
Yosemite converted JHFS+ to CS volumes for which Apple has yet to provide a driver.
If you are on Mavericks, there is no CS volume by default (unless Fusion drives are in the mix or FileVault2 is used). Apple has read-only JHFS+ driver in Bootcamp, but no CS compatible driver.
You can verify it by running diskutil cs list on the OSX side. If it returns any output, Windows cannot read such volumes.
Windows 7 will not show my mac partition
