MacDrive 7 Beta 1 Released - With Vista Support

this program never worked for me so im going to test this one.

saludos

Thanks for the heads up!

Swad, quit stealing my thunder, lol. I posted it in Winders forum first!!!!

Swad, quit stealing my thunder, lol. I posted it in Winders forum first!!!!

No you didn't I edited this before you posted that

As we were saying in the other forum,.... no support for x64 systems... not even manually installing and editing the windows registry - the 2 .sys files are 32-bit only and not compatible with x64 systems (as some others are)

People who uses MACs really do have 64bit processors, so in the future (or now already?) there would be more users with 64bit (unsuported) windows then with 32...

not really smart not supporting it

Does it play nice with Parallels? That is, using Parallels on a bootcamp install that has this.

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Here you go fellas just uploading it too you now

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Here you go just re uploaded sorry bout that picked up wrong file should be oki doki now

tryed it out in my Vista RTM system and it broke it. luckly microsoft finaly made it semi easy to fix problmes with the install cd, but yeah. It seemed to add a new Hard drive to the mix, cause I have vista start in SOS (verbous) mode and it had 4 drives not 3 and i think that was the problem. for some reason the new hdd it added caused the comptuer to reboot with no warning.

MacDrive and compatibility do not belong in the same sentence. I hate that piece of {censored} software.

That said, I would totally not recommend that anyone mess with a beta of this on a production system or you may find yourself reinstalling everything...

Does it play nice with Parallels? That is, using Parallels on a bootcamp install that has this.

Good question. No need to use it in Parallels. However, if you are using your bootcamp partition for your Parallels hd image this would be VERY important. Anyone know the answer ???

MacDrive and compatibility do not belong in the same sentence. I hate that piece of {censored} software.

 

That said, I would totally not recommend that anyone mess with a beta of this on a production system or you may find yourself reinstalling everything...

Well, everyone has their own experiences. Macdrive has workded well for me and I would consider it a must have program. I'm using it with Vista and it seems to be doing very well. (you can laugh at me when, in my next post, I whine about having to reinstall everything)

Brilliant :-) , Can checkout my Install now lol

I will try with a "test" partition, last time I used it broke things on my drive

Well, MacDrive 6 performed perfectly for me under XP, with no problems caused to the system, and no problems during use.

Beta 1 of version 7 has mostly been stable for me so far, but I did have it fail to start up once. It's good to see that a newer beta is on the way.

As for it not working on x64, I'm not in the slightest bit surprised. It is, after all, a driver. If they go to the trouble of porting it to the x64 architecture, you can bet they will be trumpeting it all over the front page!

Its not quite dificult to drive maker to make a version in x64... its just a porting matter...

They are just lazy not doing so

MacDrive 6 worked fine for me on my hackintosh but it doesn't seem to like my MacBook at all.

Its not quite dificult to drive maker to make a version in x64... its just a porting matter...

They are just lazy not doing so

If that was true, Windows XP x64 would have many many more drivers available now than it actually does.

Clearly some degree of work is required.

it did broke my vista also the problem was at the startup with the driver

then i checked it in safe mode and checked the option to be disable macdrive in the safe mode.

returned back and my vista was ok as it is.

This MacDrive 7 beta worked fine but it has stopped working now, it wants to be activated and the serial number I give is apparently no longer valid.

I'm going to hold off on using this. It would've been simple enough to leave the beta 1 download online until beta 2 was released, but I think they pulled it from their site for a reason. Maybe it's too unstable. Mounting my Mac HD in the Computer Management area of Windows and using TransMac to browse the files works very well. For all purposes, I don't really need MacDrive 7 yet. I'll wait until beta 4 or 5.

How can you mount your hd on computer management without the macdisk drivers to recgnize the hfs+ partition?

I'm going to hold off on using this. It would've been simple enough to leave the beta 1 download online until beta 2 was released, but I think they pulled it from their site for a reason. Maybe it's too unstable. Mounting my Mac HD in the Computer Management area of Windows and using TransMac to browse the files works very well. For all purposes, I don't really need MacDrive 7 yet. I'll wait until beta 4 or 5.

MacDrive 7 Beta 1 would not work for me. My system would just keep rebooting. Had to go back to last good configuration and uninstall it. I have noticed that they have pulled it for public download. Site says beta 2 coming soon. Here is the link:

http://www.mediafour.com/support/betaprogram.asp