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MacDrive 7 Beta 1 Released - With Vista Support

Alex Oughton

By Alex Oughton

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While not the full release we were expecting, Mediafour have released a Vista-compatible version of MacDrive, in Beta form.

 

Beta 1 2 of MacDrive 7 can be downloaded free of charge from Mediafour's website, with an expiry date of March 12, 2007.

 

The full product is due for release on March 5, 2007.

 

 

As with all Beta software, especially software dealing directly with file systems, caution is recommended. However, my initial tests with the software have shown no problems so far, and the same level of compatibility which was provided by MacDrive 6 under Windows XP.

 

This is sure to become one of the 'must-have' apps for users of Windows Vista on the Mac, so be sure to check out our full review of the final product in the coming months.

 

UPDATE: Beta-2 has now been made available!

 

Download Beta-2

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myzar

Macdrive 6 was junk i don't want even think how {censored} a beta is. My advice stay away from macdrive or atleast backup anything you don't want to loose :)

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DsurioN

Woah.... Maybe I'll take back that last comment. After installing beta 2, I'm now getting random blue screens every 5 minutes. Might be something else I did, but I think it's very unlikely. I'll try just using TransMac for now...

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cartri
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.

 

All you have to do is updating registers to work with syswow64 - the fact is that nobody did want to waste money and time with xp-64 since almost nobody uses it. Only now people are starting to worry about making 64-bit softwares and drivers. If you are making a new code its almost the same thing doing it on one or other, (RW-Icon Editor has 64-bit versions for instance... and its a really simple program) but if you already have the code edited you have to translate it and this becomes an "extra job" that wasnt profit-like for xp-64.

The big thing in here is that people who already know how to program in 32-bit must LEARN the differences about 64-bit (they are not much, since the only real thing that x86-64/EM64T does is allow more ram, since the acces range are normally 40, 36 or even 32-bit for processing; and teh architectures are compatible). Its all about where to register what, and the enterprises dont want to waste time and or money learning how to redo whats already done.

 

But the drivers themselfs... they are no big mistery - and its all documented on how to work with syswow64. The signing is a dificulty, but nobody here is asking for signing yet, since its a beta

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DsurioN

If anyone is getting lots of bluescreens while using this software, I might have a fix for you. I sent my feedback to mediafour and they emailed me back saying they had found a fix for my problem.

 

How to update:

 

1) If you have lost hope and already uninstalled macdrive, reinstall it but DONT restart yet. If you have macdrive installed, try to boot and complete this operation as quickly as possible without getting a blue screen (or you could restart into safe mode and disable it temporarily)

 

2) Extract the attached .rar file and place MacDrive.sys in C:\Windows\System32\drivers .

 

3) Reboot and enjoy a much more stable macdrive (it was for me at least)

MacDrive.rar

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