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External drive problem

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Stheart

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So I have this external HDD that doesn't want to work with my PC. I know that the drive itself is not broken because it works 100% fine on my Mac. I've made sure that I have the proper drivers installed onto my PC as well. Essentially what happens when I plug in the drive is it shows up in my device manager, but does not show up anywhere else. I've also tried completely removing the drive from it's casing and just pluggin it into my computer like a regular HDD, but at that point it doesn't even show up on my computer. The HDD is a Western Digital Scorpio Blue if that helps. I'm all out of ideas to figure out how to get this to work. Any help would be appreciated.

-Stheart
 
It's formated in a Mac format that Windows doesn't recognize (juste like a Mac doesn't recognize Windows NTFS).

There are probably third party software that could help.
 
It came with drivers for PC, which I installed onto my computer, but it did nothing. It does show up under disc management though, if that helps.
 
So, I googled it for you. You should be able to read the drive with HFSExplorer. Apple formats drives in HFS, which only Apple uses (but Linux can read). Windows doesn't know HFS. To read and write I found MacDrive but it's 50$.
 
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