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How do i mount HFS+ partition from winxp?

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There is a conflict between MacDrive and some SCSI emulation drivers that get installed by recent versions of Alcohol 120% and/or Daemon Tools. Look around the FAQs at the MacDrive site for some possible solutions if this might be your problem.

djtrix
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This maybe be stupid, but did you actually restart your computer after installing MacDrive6? Mine wouldn't work until it was restarted.

 

Well yes. at first i didn't and macdrive saw nothing. Then i rebooted, and it seems to have loaded the partition as a new drive (F:\). But when i click on it, windows asks me to format it to either NTFS or FAT32.

 

I'm thinking perhaps its because i used HFS+ Journaled WITH CASE SENSITIVE ENABLED. Perhaps macdrive cannot handle drives formated like this???

 

EDIT: INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE MACDRIVE SITE FOR DEALING WITH DAEMON TOOLS

An incompatibility has been discovered between MacDrive and the SPTD (SCSI Pass Through Direct) Driver that leaves MacDrive unable to mount or provide a drive letter to Mac-formatted hard disks.
The SPTD Driver is required to run such applications as Daemon-Tools (v4 and later) and Alcohol 120%.
Because uninstalling these software applications does not remove the SPTD drivers, in order to use MacDrive, the SPTD drivers will have to be manually removed per the instructions below:

1) Uninstall the conflicting software using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
2) Reboot the computer, putting it into Safe Mode. As soon as the computer starts booting up, continually tap the F8 key to let the OS know you want to boot into Safe Mode.
3) Press the ESC key when you see the the following on the bottom line of the display: "Press ESC to cancel loading SPTD.sys". This will abort loading of the SPTD layer.
4) Once Windows comes up, use Windows Explorer to navigate to the following folder: WINDOWS\System32\Drivers
5) Delete all system files that begin with "sptd"; at least two will be present. One is "sptd.sys" and the other(s) will be followed by four numbers (i.e. sptd9701.sys, sptd9973.sys).
6) Close Windows Explorer and reboot the computer normally.
7) Check to see if you can access Mac disks with MacDrive.

If you still encounter difficulty, please create a technical support ticket for assistance.
* The above instructions are inspired by the Daemon Tools forum at http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/t6992-how-to-remove-daemon-tools-v4.html.
*Once the SPTD drivers have been removed manually, it is possible to install and use Daemon Tools v3.47, which does not require the SPTD drivers, with MacDrive installed.

 

Ummm.... i have version 3.47 allready!!! and i looked for these SPTD files and none exist (even with system and hidden files showing)

 

I'm lost now....

 

Any other ideas??

Pitr-
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Ummm.... i have version 3.47 allready!!! and i looked for these SPTD files and none exist (even with system and hidden files showing)

 

I'm lost now....

 

Any other ideas??

"it is possible to install and use Daemon Tools v3.47, which _does not_ require the SPTD drivers"

In other words, daemon-tools 3.x does not need these lowlevel SPTD-drivers and therefore does not conflict with macdrive.

royler_g
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I've had the same problem. Tried EVERY Mac drive reading software on the market, none worked for me ;) (running XP). The mac drive (hfs+ journaled, formatted with the OSX install DVD) simply didn't show! But I have a fairly new version of Daemon tools installed on XP, so I must try to remove those files and see if my luck has changed... ;) Thanks for the tip!

djtrix
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2 djtrix: Did you updated MacDrive6 to latest (from web)? Cause when I installed MacDrive6 it doesn't work, but after update and reboot - works like a charm.

 

yes, i ran the update. how did you format your hfs partition? and what type of hfs did you choose?

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You have to delete C:\Windows\System32\drivers\SPTD.sys .

 

-Click the Start button -> Select "Run" -> Type "cmd" (w/o the quotes) in the "Run:" field -> Press "Enter" on the keybard, or click "OK" with the mouse.

-In the Command Prompt window that appears, type "del C:\Windows\System32\drivers\SPTD.sys" (w/o the quotes) -> Press "Enter".

-Restart Windows.

 

If you didn't get an error when you used the "del C:\Windows\System32\drivers\SPTD.sys" command, that means SPTD.sys was there, and the del command removed it. If the above doesn't work, then there is something more serious happening. Perhaps you need to update Mac Drive to 6.1. If that is ineffective, then remove Daemon Tools altogether. If that doesn't work, there is probably Registry damage, or a missing or damaged system or program file. If you can't figure-out which it is, it'd be fastest to reinstall Windows. :dev:

zu1u
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Arrrg, didn't you even read my previous post? SPTD.sys is only installed by version 4.xx of Daemon-tools.....

 

yes i read it.. problem was i had Daemon Tools 4.xx for a short while and i found out it had some addware so i removed it and reinstalled the old one.. so i wasn't really sure if the file was there

 

and as i said upgrading MacDrive helped

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Microsoft has a tool that acts like RDaemon.

 

I also had the problem and had to reinstall windows. ;-(

the only way to make things work is install Mac drive V5.x then (eventuellement Macdrive6 if really needed) then RDaemon 3.47. AVOID RDaemon 4 if you wish to use macdrive.

 

I'll have to powerup my triBOOT DELL to get the name and url of the stuff microsft made. I think it only accept ISO files. Bin/cue hasn't work on XP for me.

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