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Old June 30th 18, 07:07 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mike S[_4_]
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Default Reading Apple Files with a Windows Machine?

On 6/29/2018 11:05 PM, fnot wrote:
On 6/28/2018 5:45 PM, Boris wrote:
My daughter called me about this yesterday.

She has a 2009-2010 iMac running Snow Leopard.Â* Well, it was running, but
about five years ago, the thing would not fire up, nothing, no sound of a
spinning hard drive, no video on monitor, nothing.Â* It was like it was
not plugged in.Â* She took it to the Apple geniuses, who told her her the
motherboard must be dead, so she put it on the shelf circa 2013.Â* It was
out of warranty.

She now wants to get some files, mostly pics/videos, from the hard drive.

With the help of google, she managed to remove the hard drive.Â* It's a
2.5" 500GB Seagate SATA.Â* She connected it to my adapter/converter cable,
similar to this one

https://www.amazon.com/Generic-Adapt...erter-Optical-
External/dp/B002OV1VJW

and to her Win10 HP laptop.Â* The drive spun up, but nothing popped up on
her screen.Â* According to this article:

https://www.howtogeek.com/252111/how...ed-drive-on-a-
windows-pc/

she was expecting to get something like do you want to format this drive?

She also tried connecting to a Win7 machine, but no luck there, either.

She has not yet installed HFS+/HFSExplorer.Â* She is going to wait until I
can help (tomorrow).Â* But, if we are able to access the Apple hard drive,
can we move files to a Windows PC, and also open them?

Thanks.

It's been ages since I did this. Live Linux boot with HD attached.
Copy files.
I remember it only grabbed common types of files ie. doc, jpg, pdf, etc.
I'll look into my archived notes...


Looks like you're on the right track.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways...drive-windows/
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