Restore Mac OS X data to Win 7 PC from PATA 2.5" laptop drive

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• Mar 26, 2012

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Very likely.
If the drive was formatted for use with a MAC system then you will probably need something like MacDrive Link Removed to successfully recover that data from that drive.

 

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patcooke

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Quite a lot of methods. For small quantities of data you can email the files. For large transfers you can use methods described as on here:

How to share files and folders between Windows and OS X using Parallels – Simple Help

 

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But Win 7 PC can't "see" the PATA 2.5" drive w/ Mac OS X data on it....?

 

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If you are talking about Windows Explorer than no it won't because the file system for the drive is likely HFS or HFS+ or something similar and completely foreign to Windows OS.
I believe that is what the software is for. Maybe give the 5 day free trial of the software I linked to above a try and see if that gets you anywhere.
If neither device manager nor disk management sees the drive then the problem may be something else entirely.

 

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