Why not A hard drive formatted for use in a Mac has either an HFS or HFS+ file system. File systems compatible with Windows include FAT32 and NTFS. Some multimedia files may require you to download a free plug-in to play them on the other platform. For a Windows computer to be able to read a hard drive, it needs to have a file system format compatible with Windows.
This includes many file formats designed for use on the internet, such as PDF documents and images saved using the GIF and JPEG formats.
Many document formats will be accessible across platforms. For example, if you are using a word processing application on your Mac, it may allow you to save your document using Rich Text Format (RTF), which can be opened by many Windows word processing programs such as Microsoft Word. If you do not have the Mac version of your Windows program you may still be able to save the file to a standard format that can be read on both platforms. Another option is to upload the files to a web server from the Mac and then download them on your Windows computer. You can transfer files between the two platforms using a CD, a USB drive, or a network connection. You can then transfer the file to your Windows computer and it should open up in the program assigned to that extension. If you have the Mac version of a Windows program (such as Microsoft Office) it will likely save files in a format that can be read by your Windows computer (it will add the correct file extension). Unfortunately I find the experience of dual boot way better than including ubuntu after a while.Yes, in most cases you should be able to open a file created on a Mac on your Windows computer. Connect your Mac-formatted drive on your Windows PC and select ‘ Load file system from the device’ from File in the menu bar. Similarly, Macs can use different file formats that are not recognized by Windows, although some formats are universal, like. Macs use the HFS+ file system, which Windows won’t recognize without installing third-party software. I believe I just need to do the flagging all over again in gdisk and it would be fine. The Mac file system is not usable by Windows.
*I wouldn't mind to make any adjustments, including to reinstall the windows 10 to get the set up right again. Actually I did try to manually mount the MAC partition in windows, but there is formatting issue and asked me to re-format the MAC partition (which I obviously didn't do it). Not sure why but both OS actually work very well, except I couldn't read the MAC partition from windows. * not sure why there is a disk1 (internal, virtual) part that looks exactly the same as my disk0s2 I did all the commands to check my partitions status again, they look quite weird.
* But in Windows 10, I couldn't access/ read my MAC partition (likely because for what I did back in Boot Camp Windows 7 "Missing Operating System" ) Next, you can select your drive from the list of Detected devices as shown in the screenshot below.
* Both of my OSX, Windows 10 works fairly well How to Read Mac Formatted Drives on Windows PC Open HFSExplorer on your PC and click on File -> Load file system from device from the menu bar. I have tried to use linux as well previously and changed the settings a bit ( on the post Boot Camp Windows 7 "Missing Operating System" ). Currently I would like to do a dual boot (Windows 10 OSX). Hi, I have been changing the setting of my macbook pro recently.