Read Mac CD-ROMs on Windows

[jamie marchant]

Does anyone know of any free software that lets you read Mac cd-roms on Windows? 

 

[EvilCapitalist]

HFS Explorer is free and it sounds like it should fit the bill:

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsexplorer/

 

[jessenator]

Like old HFS (not HFS+) images? The only thing that comes to mind is an old piece of software called Dave(?)

But like EvilCapitalist said, there's HFS explorer for HFS+ volumes. Is that the same thing as the DLL that came on the Bootcamp side of OS X 10.6+ discs? That's what I've got running on my Windows 7 machine. Never tested it with optical devices, 'cause I have no optical :/

 

[Cory5412]

DAVE was a network client that let you access SMB/CIFS shares on Macs. It's fairly out of date now, so it won't let you access any modern Windows servers. 

HFS Explorer is probably the best option.

If you want to image a Mac CD, I've been using imgburn to make ISOs of some Mac things, mostly so they can be rewritten by other modern computers later.

 

[jessenator]

DAVE was a network client that let you access SMB/CIFS shares on Macs. It's fairly out of date now, so it won't let you access any modern Windows servers. 

Dangit! What was the Windows-side software package? It was a Dave-contemporary at any rate I think…

Also, will HFS Explorer work with non+ HFS volumes as well?

 

[Cory5412]

HFV explorer is the one I remember, I don't think it let you connect to appletalk networks.

I'll be honest, I don't remember a Windows tool that let you connect to AppleShare volumes, ASIP5/6 could host SMB and in general the expectation for cross-platform compatibility was usually that the Macs would adapt to the Windows environment.

Windows Server had Mac file services and even the AppleTalk network protocol built in until 2003 or 2003R2 (I actually need to test this) but it was a separate thing to configure. (Though: it respected NTFS permissions, so you'd set up your shares on both sides and the real permissions would be in the NTFS folder structure, so it wasn't that much work to set up and run.)

Also, will HFS Explorer work with non+ HFS volumes as well?

The web page says it will.

 

[Cory5412]

I don't remember a Windows tool that let you connect to AppleShare volumes,

I don't know why I didn't remember, this got discussed here literally a week ago:



But, it won't work on modern versions of Windows.

If this is in the same vein, I'm extremely interested in an end-to-end on what the need is. There might be something better someone can suggest.

 

[EvilCapitalist]

Oh wow, PC MACLAN, that takes me back!  I ran that in the days of '98SE when I wanted to share files back and forth with some iBooks.  It worked really well, but like you said it's not going to work on anything current.  Come to think of it, I feel like it didn't entirely play nicely with Windows XP, though by the time I was using that the Macs I was using were on OS X and I could just go the Samba share route.

 

[NJRoadfan]

While not its primary use case, CiderPress will open and manipulate HFS formatted media including CD-ROMs.

https://a2ciderpress.com/

Windows NT used to have built-in AppleShare file/printer sharing support (called "Services for Macintosh") and NTFS natively supported storing resource forks directly in the file system as alternative data streams.

 

[jamie marchant]

This is different than the networking thing. The networking was to read my Mac's hard disk to maintain it remotely, this is to read the data on Mac CD-ROMs, although the topics do have similarities. 

I tried "HFS Explorer" but it did not work. 

 

[Mu0n]

Another way is to get Basilisk II up and running and mount the CD drive from there.

 

[uyjulian]

If you make a disk image, you can copy it to other CD-R, transfer it to a Mac OS X machine to mount it, or read it in emulators like QEMU, SheepShaver, or Basilisk II.