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Official HFS+ Drivers for Windows in Snow's Bootcamp


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Seems we finally get some HFS drivers for Windows natively with snow leopards bootcamp.

 

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/05/06/snow-l...indows-drivers/

 

Sweeeeeeeeeeet :D

Now I can finally get rid of FAT32 as my sharing partition.

 

Now Snow Leopard will have native support for NTFS and Windows will support HFS+. It's a dream come true, although I wish Micro$oft included native support for HFS+.

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MacDrive is useful but also really annoying.

 

My main beef with it is that disabling MacDrive itself doesn't disable the system tray notifications. I don't need to be reminded on every friggin boot-up why I can't see my HFS partitions.

 

And it's annoying to have to reboot whenever I change the settings.

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MacDrive is useful but also really annoying.

 

My main beef with it is that disabling MacDrive itself doesn't disable the system tray notifications. I don't need to be reminded on every friggin boot-up why I can't see my HFS partitions.

 

And it's annoying to have to reboot whenever I change the settings.

 

 

I've never had any problems with MacDrive with my HFS+ partitions. It mounts them without any problems on every Windows boot.

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I've never had any problems with MacDrive with my HFS+ partitions. It mounts them without any problems on every Windows boot.

 

No, you misunderstand. It's working fine for me too, when I want it to work.

 

I don't want my HFS partitions/drives to be mounted all the time, so I keep MacDrive disabled and only enable it when I need it.

 

The problem is that on every single boot I get a popup that says MacDrive is disabled and a warning icon in the system tray (at least you can opt to hide the icon).

 

I think a disabled program should shut up and stay disabled. I disabled it myself, and I don't need it to tell me that I've disabled it.

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As someone who works with video and graphics using both NTFS and HFS partitions, sometimes on the same project, this would be great. Even if it's read only. It's a pain to reboot to Windows, realize you forgot to copy something to your Windows work drive, and have to reboot or run HFS Explorer. I don't trust MacDrive as a previous user said it eats partition tables - I've heard that before - it's a no-no for handling valuable project files. I have tried it, though, and it wouldn't see all of my partitions for some reason, so it was useless anyways.

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MacDrive Eats partition tables. newer versions may be better but I´ll never trust it.

 

Can confirm. Lost TWICE my mounted HD due to system crash/power failure.

And reconstructing the partition table isn't a relaxing hobby.

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For me Mac Drive sucks, I used the lastest version a few moths ago and when I was trying to move a large file from NTFS to HFS+ it crashed windows and guess what the HFS+ partition was damaged, even with check disk didn't work I had to reformat that partition.

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I'm using Windows 7 RTM and I'm having a huge problem on a Mac Pro with several HDD's and a SSD, and It's repeatedly crashing to blue screen when accessing the Mac HFS Drives via Apples built in driver (bootcamp 3.0). Anyone knows why or a work around let me know at blue@maniac66.idps.co.uk

 

I tried installing MacDrive 8 also but that resulted in a complete OS failure to boot, maybe conflicting with Apples HFS Driver, it's annoying as hell!

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Can confirm. Lost TWICE my mounted HD due to system crash/power failure.

And reconstructing the partition table isn't a relaxing hobby.

 

Same goes with Paragon for Ntfs on the osx side. Corrupted a 600 GB ntfs partition for me. THANKFULLY I could recover it. One should use these 3d party tools with care.

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