Can I plug hd into windows computer?

[Garibaldi]

My mac with 10.2 recently crashed, but the hd is still fine. I want to get my info off of the hd, but all I have is a windows machine. Can I connect my internal mac hd to my windows computer and take the files off using something like TransMac? Will this damage my windows pc or mac hd at all?

[galactica]

To be perfectly honest, i have no clue!
hahaha. I would think it would not work, only becuase when you purchase a new empty drive it has to be formatted to the mac specs. But in all hoesty i have no clue. No mac friends who can help ya out?

[BJ_M]

i use mac formated drives all the time on a pc ..

i use macdrive

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/

[Garibaldi]

i use mac formated drives all the time on a pc

So it won't hurt my pc? I have a program that I think will work too called TransMac:
http://www.download.com/TransMac/3000-2248-10256283.html?tag=lst-0-1

[redwudz]

Should work fine, especially with a program like TransMac. I have a couple of Firewire drives that I move back and forth between a Mac and a PC.

The PC normally won't read the Mac only files, but word files, MPG, and any other files are pretty much universal to both formats. The newer Macs use the same file system as a PC and the drives are interchangeable, at least the Fat 32 drives. NTFS won't work, AFAIK.

It shouldn't bother your PC, though the OS may not identify Mac only files without a translate program.

[Garibaldi]

hould work fine, especially with a program like TransMac. I have a couple of Firewire drives that I move back and forth between a Mac and a PC.

The PC normally won't read the Mac only files, but word files, MPG, and any other files are pretty much universal to both formats. The newer Macs use the same file system as a PC and the drives are interchangeable, at least the Fat 32 drives. NTFS won't work, AFAIK.

It shouldn't bother your PC, though the OS may not identify Mac only files without a translate program.

You said that you have firewire drives, but this is an internal hd, is it still safe? Sorry, this must sound like a dumb question but I just want to be sure and not take a risk of destroying my pc.

[BJ_M]

yes it is safe -- i move them all the time back and forth ..

mac drives do not use the same format as pc , but macdrive6 reads just like they are any other pc drive -- it does mater if ntfs or fat32 on your local system and doesnt mater which mac os you used ..

[Garibaldi]

I finally got a different IDE cable and hooked my mac drive into my windows pc. About a month ago I plugged my mac hd into a friend's g4 and it booted up fine so I know the mac hd is okay. So I set the mac hd to slave and booted into XP. I then went to control panel and added the hard drive.. it recognized and installed it but I couldn't see it in my computer. I tried opening it in TransMac, it recognized it (the drive didn't have a drive letter which is why I'm guessing it didn't show up in my computer) but I couldn't access anything, TransMac said it was corrupt or something, which I know to be incorrect since I just tried it in a mac and it worked fine.

Just for fun I booted up Slax Linux and it recognized but couldn't mount my mac hard drive (hdb, and BTW there were something like 18 hdbs, ie hdb1, hdb2, hdb3, ect ect) but couldn't mount it, it said unknown filesystem. I then uphooked my mac hd.

What am I doing wrong and what do I have to do to get my mac hd to work in my windows machine? I would prefer not to reformat so I can get the data off of it first.