Mac formatted to Computer Transfer

Why do we emphasize Mac formatted iPod?

Because you can not use your Mac formatted iPod / iPhone or any Mac formatted devices on your Windows PC. They are in different disc formats.

Here, you can use your Mac formatted iPod on your Windows PC with the help of HFSExplorer.

HFSExplorer is a Macdrive alternative. With this Mac Drive tool on a Windows PC no longer are Mac disks ignored and unable to be used. HFSExplorer helps Mac disks act and appear like normal Windows disks. You can share files between windows and Mac. It reads Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images easily on Windows PC. And it is totally free. So now you are able to use your Mac formatted iPod as windows formatted one and transfer Mac formatted iPod to computer (windows).

Mac formatted iTouch and Mac formatted iPhone to Computer Transfer are also supported.

Interface of HFSExplorer

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How to use HFSExplore

1) Installation:
First make sure you have Sun's Java SE Runtime Environment version 1.5.0 or greater. Second, make sure you have administrator privilegies. HFSExplorer needs to access raw block devices, and users with standard privileges aren't usually allowed to do that in any operating system.

Windows users only need to download the convenient installer (see the downlaod links the top of the page), which will do everything for you.
The installer will place two shortcuts to HFSExplorer in its start menu folder.
The first, "HFSExplorer", simply opens the application. If you are an administrator running Windows XP or Windows Vista with User Account Control disabled, you will be able to access block devices.
The second shortcut, "Run HFSExplorer in Administrator mode", makes it possible to elevate your privileges. In Windows Vista, this is done with the User Account Control dialog, and in Windows XP a similar but not as fancy dialog is shown to make it possible authenticate as an administrator.
If you want to access a partition on the disk of your computer, and you run Windows Vista, you should always start HFSExplorer in "Administrator mode".

2) Usage: you will find the File menu item:

Load file system from iPod
This is because block devices in Windows are not as easily accessible as under UNIX-like systems. The user will be presented with a dialog where it can choose which partition to read.
The easiest way to find your HFS+ volume is to press the "Autodetect" button, but in case it doesn't work, you can specify the device manually. The naming scheme is as in the following examples:

Harddisk0/Partition0 - The entire first hard drive
Harddisk0/Partition1 - First partition on hard drive 1
Harddisk0/Partition2 - Second partition of hard drive 1
Harddisk1/Partition1 - First partition on hard drive 2

Hard disks are enumerated from 0 upwards. Partitions, on the other hand, are enumerated from 1 and upwards, with Partition0 representing the whole drive. Keep that in mind when looking for your Mac partition.

If there's nothing in the list, take a look in your system using WinObj from Sysinternals to see if you can find what you are looking for.

The program is released under the GPL version 3. It operates in read-only mode so it is virtually impossible for it to cause any harm. I'm always in need of feedback, so please email me if you have any suggestion on how to improve the application.

The next step is to use iPod to Computer Transfer for your tranferring jobs

Then you can use iPod to Computer Transfer or any other iPod transfer program to transfer Mac formatted iPod music, movie, photo to computer (windows).

Use iPod Photo Transfer to transfer Mac formatted iPod photo to computer (windows).

Use iPhone to Computer Transfer to transfer Mac formatted iPhone music, movie and photo to computer (windows).

Use iPhone Photo Transfer to transfer Mac formatted iPhone photo to computer (windows).

Use iPhone SMS Transfer to transfer Mac formatted iPhone SMS to computer (windows).

Use iPhone Contact Transfer to transfer Mac formatted iPhone Contact to computer (windows).

Tips:

Windows formatted iPod to Mac Transfer and Mac formatted iPod to Mac Transfer does not require HFSExplorer. They can be transferred to Mac directly.

More details about HFSExplorer, please click here.

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