These drivers will mount your Mac hard drives in Windows Explorer and give you read access (but no write access). Among other things, Boot Camp includes built-in HFS+ drivers for Windows. If purchasing apps is not an option for you, check out the following section.Īpple's Boot Camp software is designed to help you run Windows on real Macs. It has a higher price tag and doesn't offer much more than Paragon HFS+, but it's an option. If you're looking for an alternative to Paragon HFS+, then you can also consider MacDrive ($50 5-day trial), which is the solution that I'm currently using on my own Hackintosh. Paragon is the same company that makes NTFS+ for Mac OS X, my recommended solution for enabling NTFS write support on Mac OS X Lion. Paragon HFS+ runs in the background and automatically starts on bootup, so accessing your Mac drives will feel exactly like accessing normal Windows drives. My Computer) and gives you read and write access. Paragon HFS+ ($20) is a Windows application that mounts all of your Mac hard drives in Windows Explorer (a.k.a. LATEST UPDATE (January 26, 2013): Added Apple's Boot Camp Drivers to the article. Having read/write access for your Mac partition on Windows will come in handy if your Hackintosh becomes unbootable, because you'll be able to boot into Windows to recover your files (and possibly fix your Hackintosh's boot problem).

Read past the break for a tutorial on how to access your Hackintosh's Mac OS X hard drive partition from Windows. Luckily, you can enable HFS+ support on Windows with the help of one or two Windows drivers (depending on your budget). Mac OS X uses the HFS+ hard drive format, which Windows doesn't support. Can someone please give me detailed instructions how to format it so it works for both and still be able to read and write files from multiple computers.If you dual-boot your Hackintosh, you've probably noticed that Windows can't read hard drive partitions used by Mac OS X. I have a 500GB passport formatted for MAC and I need to be able to use it for PCs as well.

My passport format for mac