Help! I need to access partitioned Mac HD from PC!?

You can use TransMac software to access a MAC formatted drive on a Windows based PC. I've used TransMac with good results. See link for more info and download. Good Luck!

I'm sorry to say it will not be done by tomorrow your going to be screwed up. because there is going to be new things you have to learn and do that can't be done in a day

If you had mentioned what file type (doc, graphic) you want off the mac hdd and copying on the Pc, Windows can't read Mac format, which is a Microsoft proprietary operating system, Mac os/x is also a proprietary operating system,

I interoperate your question like this, If I'm right. You have a Western Digital Portable HD that is formatted in Mac BSD format, and you want your files off it, The way you need to do that is by downloading a copy of a Linux utility disk , Linux will read any hard drive file format.

You download the utility software, then make a boot able ISO disk. boot the disk up from the cd/dvd drive, It will then read the Window partition and the Western Digital Portable HD, You log onto the external hard drive file the file you want and the copy it (into memory) then log on to the windows partition and past it in your documents on the windows partition,

Now here is the crunch part, will windows read the file type, If it is a Mac text document the answer will be "No" it wont read it, you would have to download Open Office for windows install it on your PC, then open it up and print it out,

Here are the website you can download the Linux Utilities ISO file from

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=part...

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gpar...

for the Office software here

http://openoffice.org/

My advice to you would be to dump windows and move over to Linux, Linux can do everything windows and Mac can do, Linux is free to download It's up to date April 2011 there is over100 Linux distributions available with over 33,000 professional application software packages, and you can download it from here. Linux Mint has just been released today

http://distrowatch.com,/

"my Mac partitioned Hard Drive" is... What??? If it is an external HDD, great:

-- Install HMSExplorer, free, link below, in Windows and Bob's your uncle. You can open any compatible file on the Mac formatted HDD and print it. You can't save anything to the Mac formatted drive from Windows.

For a read-write solution, just do these steps:

-- Copy all your files from it to your internal HDD of the Mac.

-- Then partition the external HDD as either Apple Partition Map or Master Boot Record {Windows has various types of seizures when it sees GUID Partition Table (GPT), the default partition scheme in OS 10.6 depending on the version of Windows. Even so, Microsoft will change to GPT for the next version of Windows which will be named... Windows XYZ, or UltraVista or 7.5 or 8?}

-- Format both partitions as "Mac OS Extended (journaled)".

-- Then download and install NTFS-3G, a read-write driver for OS X to use an NTFS drive volume.

-- Then use Disk Utility to format one partition NTFS.

-- Copy all your files back to the external HDD, but of course, copy all PC targeted files to the NTFS volume.

Alternate solution:

-- Drive to the drug store and buy a Mini-disk (pen drive / jump drive / thumb drive / flash drive / stick drive, whatever).

Carling might say "Oh, you want to break up with your GF? Then get Linux!" He thinks Linux solves everything. Does Mark Shuttleworth have him on salary? BTW, Carling, there is no "Mac BSD format". There is UFS, but Apple doesn't support it (plus it has a 4GB file size limit, like the old FAT-32). Another BTW: Linux does not fully support UFS -- can't write to it, so there goes your Linux picture of format perfection. Bruce Lee Roy, you probably already know Carling is wrong to say "will windows read the file type, If it is a Mac text document the answer will be "No" it wont read it" since Windows NotePad can open any Mac text file, and MS Office for Windows can open any Mac Office file. You wouldn't need OpenOffice for Windows if you already have MS Office. {The Mac free office suite is NeoOffice -- truly Mac -- OpenOffice for Mac is a poor port of OpenOffice for Windows / Linux / Solaris. A third BTW: "Linux can do everything windows and Mac can do" Um, can Linux sync to an iPod? Can Linux play Shockwave Flash (without running Windows in WINE)? Can Linux edit video in Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premier? Can Linux play QuickTime videos embedded in a Web page (both Windows and Mac can)?

Get a Ubuntu live cd, boot it, you can mount both PC and Mac HD at the same time and move the files around from and to.

i might in simple terms shop the confusing tension on your pc. purchase the Mac OS CD purely. Then installation the OS to the partition on your HD. In end, you may shop funds via purely figuring out to purchase the Mac OS installation disc, you will not would desire to pass the confusing tension, and homestead windows will nonetheless be actual. in simple terms confirm your pc meets each and every of the standards to run Mac.

Try MacDisk or Paragon HFS for Windows, both trial versions are available on net. Atleast your task could be done. Remember you will have to restart the PC.

hope it helps