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

PHDinCT

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Does anyone know how to import pata 2.5 samsung hm160hc w/ Mac OS X data on usb to windows 7? I'm trying to use the Dynexprods drive enclosure and Win7 won't recognize drive...Cause its from a Mac OS X? or what?

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PHD
 

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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.
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.
 

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
 

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

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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