MacDrive 7 Beta 1 Released - With Vista Support

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

Agree

Beta-2 now available. Front page story updated.

Umm.... I've had a perfect experience with MacDrive... both with version 6 under XP and 7 under vista...

Umm.... I've had a perfect experience with MacDrive... both with version 6 under XP and 7 under vista...

Same here.

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...

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

What does do it?

Faster download link.

MacDrive7 Beta2

Dice

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

does this let me read and write NTFS partition in OSx86?