HD not showing up

[iSkylla]

Hey, I have a Mac Formatted Maxtor 250GB HD. I plugged it in, it spins up, shown in Device manager but does NOT appear in MY computer, I would really like to get the data off, or at least get it to show up. What should I do? And what jumper should it be on?

[defakto]

Um, if it was formatted on a mac chances are it's with a file system that windows does not support natively. You're going to have to find out what FS and then find some third party software that will read it for you.

[iSkylla]

Hmm, I am not exactly sure what to do!!! It shows up in BIOS though. But thanks for sig point #2, got my Seagate drive working, didn't work for this maxtor though.

[defakto]

I told you what you needed to do.

If there's confustion FS=File System.

You're going to have to find out what FS and then find some third party software that will read it for you.

To edit that a touch, you're going to have to find out what FS the mac formatted it as the first time

[iSkylla]

Oh, I know what File System mac is formatted to. Mac HDs are formatted for HFS+.

[defakto]

Well, windows can't read that natively. SO you *need* a third party app or you need to plug it back into a system that can read it and get your data

[iSkylla]

If anyone could find one besides MacOpener, I would be happy, thanks.

[defakto]

It usually considered bad form to have someone search for software for you that you could search your self.

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

There is no current open source from what I picked up reading in forums so chances are you will have to buy your software.

[iSkylla]

Yeah, I know, I actually found that too. I plan to try it when I get home. Thanks for looking too, I was actually asking to see if people came up with other stuff, thanks.

[TheDoucheMan]

Yeah, I know, I actually found that too. I plan to try it when I get home. Thanks for looking too, I was actually asking to see if people came up with other stuff, thanks.

That or backing the info up to dvd's or something else on a mac system is one other option. But if you want your computer to read the HD, i believe the method mentioned above is about the only choice.

[iSkylla]

I did the free trial and it worked like a charm. Got all the stuff, now it is formatted as NTFS.