My friends 2008(ish) era macbook pro died recently but the SATA HDD is fine, I have removed it and plugged it into a Windows 7 machine. I can see in Paragon Partition Manager that the drive is a GPT Hard Disk, how do i go about viewing the files on Windows? The PC I have connected it to has dualboot ubuntu, would it be easier to access the files from linux? Any freeware suggestions? I have tried googling for a few tutorials but these tend to focus on a dead HDD.
Thanks.
Best Answer
GTP isn't the issue, it's the HFS+ (aka Mac OS Extended) volume inside it; in order to read that, you need HFS+ drivers for Windows (or Linux or whatever). Paragon sells a driver for this, or you could use the drivers from Apple's Boot Camp software. I can't vouch for their authenticity, but I found downloads claiming to be just the HFS+ parts of Boot Camp at MacRumors.com and MacBreaker.com.