Once you download the software, just connect your APFS drive and it will show up in Explorer. It supports APFS formatted SSD’s, HDD’s and flash drives.Īlthough this is not a free tool, you can invest in it if you regularly read and write from APFS formatted drives through Windows. If you want to read and write files to APFS formatted drives, then this tool is a good choice.
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This tool can also be used to recover HFS partitions, HFS+ partitions and supports all Mac OS versions. Note: If you encounter a situation where partitions are lost or corrupt due to using disk management tools, due to bad sectors or due to other reasons, use Remo Recover to recover lost partitions on Mac. The advantage of this tool is that it is completely free to use allowing you to read and copy files from the Mac drives. It doesn’t allow you to write to these Mac drives, but it can be used to read from HFS, HFS+ and HFSX drives.
This is a basic tool if all you need is to read some files from an HFS+ formatted drive from your Windows PC’s. Since these third-party tools are specially designed to read data from Mac formatted drives through Windows, so you should be able to read files without any difficulty. But if that’s not the case, click ‘Cancel’ and use other third-party tools that allow you to access Mac formatted drives from Windows PC’s. Of course, if you don’t have any important files, you can go ahead and format. ‘You need to format the drive in drive before you can use it’.īut warning! If you proceed with formatting, all the contents of the drive will be erased. When you connect a Mac drive (formatted using HFS+ or APFS) to a Windows system, it will immediately ask you to format the drive with a message as follows:
When you connect a Mac drive (HFS+ or APFS) to Windows… APFS is aimed to fix some core issues of HFS+ such as concurrent file system access and sparse file support. It was designed to support much larger files compared to HFS and also allowed for better space utilization.īut with the release of the new OS High Sierra, Mac introduced a new file system called APFS. HFS+ was introduced in 1998 as a successor of Mac’s first file system, HFS. If that’s not the case, your drive will be formatted with HFS+ or APFS file systems in most cases.Ī background on HFS+ and APFS file systems However, if you’ve foreseen that you are going to use a particular device on both Windows and Mac, then it will usually be formatted with exFAT, which is compatible with both these systems. So when you connect a Mac formatted (as in HFS+ or APFS) drive to Windows system, it will offer to erase it and format it in order to make it compatible. Windows systems, by default, cannot read from Mac formatted drives.
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