Cross-platform Drive Solutions:

Company

Product

Operating System

Description

MacDrive enables Windows to read and write to Mac-formatted drives from Windows Explorer, as well as mount unencrypted Mac DMG disk images in Windows. Mac Drive automatically converts file names, eliminating characters not allowed in Windows.

MacDrive includes a Windows utility called MacDrive Disk Manager that can format, partition and repair Mac-formatted storage media. In addition to running on Windows on a PC, MacDrive can run on Mac booted with Windows with Boot Camp. The later case enables Windows to read and write files located on the Mac partition. MacDrive 9 will automatically add content from the Mac partition to the Windows 7 libraries.

MacDrive also enables Windows installed in a virtual machine in Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion to access external Mac drives.

MacDrive 9 Standard adds a Windows the Quick Start Launcher window, which provides links to open all of MacDrive’s features, such as opening Mac-format storage, burning CDs and DVDs in Mac format, and repairing Mac storage. MacDrive 9 also improves the ability to repair Mac drives.

MacDrive 9 Pro includes all the features of MacDrive 9 Standard, but adds four new features to Windows: support of Apple RAID sets, Secure Delete, the ability to create Mac ISO image files, and the ability to burn Blu-ray discs.

MacDrive 9 Pro’s RAID feature enables Windows Explorer to display and access Mac-formatted RAIDs created with Apple’s Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4 and later. MacDrive 9 Pro supports RAIDs that are striped, mirrored, or concatenated. (For mirrored sets, all drives must be connected.) MacDrive 9 Pro cannot mount a RAID of greater than 2TB in Windows XP 32-bit, due to the inherent limitation in Windows XP. Large RAIDs are supported with Windows 7 and Vista.

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XPlay

Windows software that lets you use Mac-formatted (and Windows formatted) iPods in Windows, whether on a PC or a Mac with Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMware. iTunes for Windows does not support Mac-formated iPods. Also unlike iTunes, XPlay can send music, playlists, videos, and photos from the iPod to Windows. iTunes can only send files to the iPod.

You can use XPlay by itself or with iTunes for Windows, and also can connect an iPod with Windows Media Player 11 and Vista Media Center. XPlay 3 can also recover music and videos that an iPod can no longer find, and can automatically convert unprotected WMA files to MP3. It also lets you move vCard contacts from Outlook and other contact managers to the iPod.

Acute Systems
PO Box 37
Algonquin, IL 60102

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TransMac

Windows 2000, 2003, XP, and Vista

Enables Windows to read, write and format Mac HFS, HFS+, and HFSX drives and discs. Users access Mac volumes with a File Explorer-type user interface with external drag and drop.

Long filename support. Search disk by Mac type/creator or PC extension.Multisession CD support. Keep or refresh file dates between copy.

New File Explorer type user interface with external drag and drop.
Can compress and expand Mac .DMG disk images. Can be used to access Mac partition from Boot Camp.

A JavaApp that enables Windows to browse Mac (HFS+) formatted drives and partitions. (A blogger wrote about using it with Boot Camp).

Digital Instrumentation Technology

Transfer Pro

Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX

Access Mac floppies and any SCSI media. Also contains file translators that can convert between Macintosh and PC graphics file formats, as well as graphics and text viewers for many file formats.

Interactive Information R&D

CDEveryWhere

Windows 95/98/NT/2000Me/XP

(Also available for Macintosh and UNIX)

Lets you create cross-platform (hybrid) CD-ROMs that include ISO9660, Joliet, RockRidge, and HFS. Lets you assign Macintosh type and creator file attributes based on file name or file content. Drag and drop the files or directories to create the disk image. AutoStart support for Macintosh, AutoRun support for Windows. Execute an application or open a document when the CD is inserted.

Logiciels & Services, Duhem
21, rue La Bruyere, 75009 Paris, France (+33) [0] 149-700-455 FAX: (+33) [0] 149-700-456 email

MacDisk

(French version also available) 

Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista

Reading, writing and formatting HD (High Density) floppy disks (1.44 MB), CD-ROMs, pure HFS, hybrid (HFS/ISO 9660) and even ISO 9660 CD-ROMs with Apple extensions DVD-ROMs, which are in fact just huge CD-ROMs. Plain hard disks (IDE) without any capacity limit (see also our page on Disk Interfaces). Windows NT/2000/XP only.

MacImage

(French version also available)

Windows NT, 2000, XP

Produces hybrid Macintosh/PC (HFS/ISO 9660) CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs on a PC. (DVD-ROMs are just bigger volumes.) Hybrid CD-ROMs behave like native media on both platforms (PC and Macintosh) and give all users the best possible experience when mounting the CD-ROM on their computer.
On a PC, those CD-ROMs behave like plain ISO 9660/Joliet CD-ROMs (autostart, long file names).