Written by: Jason Bash
The Problem: My MacBook Pro (Oct 2008 Edition) is as good as dead in less than a year of purchase - the video screen looks like a ghost (barely readable only if you shine a very bright light on the screen) - most likely the back-lit lamp problem. I don't care - even though expensive not to fix - I don't want to spend a single more dime on Apple. Sorry Apple, I believed once in Rome but not any more. That kind of perfection doesn't exist ... at least not in this temporal world.
The Strategy: Access the HFS disk from Windows. Sorry Windows, people call you ugly, I did too once, but not any more. With humility comes knowledge.
The Solution:
HFSExplorer, cost: Free
What is HFSExplorer?
HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images.
It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names).
http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html
I took the Mac hard disk, attached a removable hard disk adapter with USB cable. Connected it to my Windows machine. With HFSExplorer I could easily browse the Mac hard disk over the USB cable and safely copy the files, movies and music I needed to my Windows hard drive.
And oh yes,
- Super fast extraction and copy to Windows hard disk
- Works 100% on Windows 7
and it's sweet FREE (+no spyware, adware, etc)!
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