Comments on: Review: MacDrive 7

By: Tyler Regas

Tyler Regas — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:24:50 +0000

Pedro,

Could you please give me some more information? What OS are you running? I’m not immediately familiar with the 6400. What CPU and how much RAM does it have? Does it have USB 2.0 ports? How are you attempting to connect the Mac volume? Can this volume be mounted on a Mac?

Thanks!

Tyler

By: pedro

pedro — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:41:59 +0000

Hi, i´ve installed Macdrive 7 on a Dell inspiron 6400. It won´t read mac formated drives. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Thanks

By: Tyler Regas

Tyler Regas — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:04:53 +0000

I feel your pain. With MacDrive 7 enabled, it should recognize your HFS+ drive just like it does with FAT formatted drives. Give MediaFour support a call. They’ll help you, even though you haven’t purchased it yet.

By: No SuRRenDeR

No SuRRenDeR — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:36:18 +0000

Nope —usb or firewire same situation…….(I am not going to format the drive using the disk manger in windows either or Ill loose the 100+gigs of stuff i already have on it)……Windows absolutely wont recognize my Western Digital Mybook studio edition drive (hfs+ formatted) with or without this software. In order for Macdrive to work —windows needs to first assign the drive a drive letter———————————–> BUT windows wont assign it a drive letter if it’s hfs+ formatted disk….this is a total catch 22!

I was so hopefull now im just peaved!

By: No SuRRenDeR

No SuRRenDeR — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:20:09 +0000

Well Ill try switching to the usb connection and see if makes a difference with the Macdrive software.

By: Tyler Regas

Tyler Regas — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:56:57 +0000

No SuRRenDeR, you’re having an interesting problem which I have not encountered. I, too, have an HFS+ formatted external drive, but it is USB. I have serious doubts that the cause of this issue is the transport, but one can never say anything without at least injecting some doubt. I would contact MediaFour support and tell them that you’d like to purchase it, but can’t get it to work. I can’t imagine they wouldn’t be more than happy to give you a hand.

By: No SuRRenDeR

No SuRRenDeR — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:28:04 +0000

EDIT
“If I right click on my computer and go to manage the computer does see it but recognizes it as unformated”

*sorry—I meant (unknown partition) not unformated—

By: No SuRRenDeR

No SuRRenDeR — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:24:13 +0000

“That’s an excellent question, but no. MacDrive 7 is an HFS/HFS+ file system facilitator for Windows so that you can read and write to Mac drives. For instance, let’s say that you purchase a 250GB USB drive and format it for use on your Mac. If you plug it into your Windows systems or Windows in Boot Camp, Windows will not be able to read or write to the drive. When you install MacDrive 7, that drive immediately becomes available to both read from and write to. I hope that helps!”

Actually I have a macbook pro with bootcamp my external is formated hfs+ and connected via firewire. I can use it OSX but not windows. If I right click on my computer and go to manage the computer does see it but recognizes it as unformated. I installed the trial of Macdrive 7 and it WILL NOT let me access my drive….WTH am I missing here—because it too seems to be able to find it in its disk management utility but it I still cant get into my hard drive in windows–????????????????????????

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