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Mac External Hard Drive not seen on my PC

I have a 1TB External drive full of movies and pictures from my mac and i need a way to see all of those files on a pc so i can watch a movie with my girlfriend

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so ,you computer doesn't even see the harddrive ,or sees it and just cant play the different file type .if so get VLC media player it plays all types of media files

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so ,you computer doesn't even see the harddrive ,or sees it and just cant play the different file type .if so get VLC media player it plays all types of media files

It wont see the hard drive i think i need a driver for my pc

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search model number of external device on www.google.com
for drivers for windows
post the model # here if you wish

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Here are links to commercial products that will let you do this: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/ or http://www.mediafour.com/
For a free program that can access files on your HFS/HFS+ drive (the formats that Apple uses), try this: http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html

FWIW, there are HFS/HFS+ open source drivers for Linux.

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