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Unfortunately there is no such application in Windows to read MAC files on an external hard drive. However, I would suggest you to find any third party application using your favorite search engine and see if it helps.

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We suggest you to try the software and reply with the results.

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I don't get it. If you format the external drive, wouldn't you lose all the files in it?

Anyway, for anyone who is having the same issue, I was searching for this same issue (reading files in a Mac formatted drive from Windows 10) and found HFSExplorer.

Have not tried it yet, but description says it can read only (the files in you Mac formatted external hard drive).

This way, although not being able to edit or write, you can at least copy the files to Windows.

Just not sure about files inside Time Machine backups...

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I have an external drive that uses the GUID partition scheme, and has the partition info mirrored to an MBR as Macs are won't to do. The drive does FireWire and USB, and Ideally, I'd like any solution presented here to work with both buses.

I have HFS+ and NTFS partitions on it. The NTFS are among the first four as MBR needs them to.

I did this partitioning via Disk Utility, and then used Winclone to copy my Boot Camp partition to the NTFS partition on the external drive. The cloning went fine, the files are there, but the Windows partition does not appear to be bootable.

I tried using rEFIt, by keeping it on another partition on the external drive and booting from it, but that was to no avail. I still got a 'No bootable device…' message.

The only way that I was able to boot from the external drive was by keeping a minimal Windows installation on a partition in the internal drive. If you scour the web you'll find a way to do this using only a minimal partition (60mb or so) with only the very necessary files there. But I really wanted the external drive to be reusable among many Macs.

update: it has since come to my attention that Windows XP does not boot out of the box from external devices, but that it can be hacked to do so. My googling and reading shows people doing new installs to achieve so. And it's all very clumsy and there doesn't seem to be a definitive way to do this[1]. Can I hack an existing Windows XP install to be USB and FireWire-bootable? Also, most solutions focus on USB thumb flash drives, and I'm talking about real spinning harddisks.

So, most importantly, is it at all possible to boot Windows XP on a Mac from external drives?

I have spare drives aplenty to play with, and so I have been doing, but so far I've mostly managed to mess up my internal disk partitioning scheme in a very interesting, peculiar and irrelevant way. (SuperDuper to rescue). So far, all FAIL.

[1]: The Mac of Windows hacking, so to speak.

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If you install rEFIt it will give you a boot option menu on every boot in which you can select any partition or external device to boot from.

I wanted the multi-tool of USB drives. Two partitions: one bootable Mac partition and one that could be read from and written to by both Macs and Windows machines. I finally got it done and I don't know why it works, but it does. Here's the deal:

Equipment needed:

• A 16GB USB drive or larger (try to find one that is fast too)
• A drive or partition with a minimal OS X build of your liking (10.6.7 for me was 7.2GB)
• A running Mac
• A Windows (virtual) machine - I used Parallels 5 with Windows 7

The procedure:

1. Partition the USB drive with GUID partition table; the first partition should be FAT32 (or exFAT), the second should be HFS+ (8GB minimum to fit OS X)

2. Plug the drive into the Windows machine and agree to it formatting the drive (200MB only for some reason) and label it something odd (I use xxx)

3. Plug the drive into a Mac, fire up Disk Utility, click on the USB drive, select partition tab, select the xxx partition and press the 'delete' key. You are now back to having two partitions.

4. Restore (using Disk Utility) your prebuilt minimal OS X to the HFS+ partition.

5. I like to do a Disk Utility repair on the HFS+ partition following the restore.

You now have a Mac-bootable USB drive that has a Windows partition which is readable and writeable by both OS X and Windows.

From my earlier comment.

When using Bootcamp the correct method of booting into Windows is to go into System Preferences - Startup Disk and select the partition to reboot from. If your FireWire is seen as a listed drive then you can set it here and reboot.

However this seems to break intermittently and therefore rEFit is the best solution I have found to do dual booting with on the Mac.

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