If you’re starting from scratch, you can initialize a drive as MS-DOS (FAT)-better known as FAT32-which is readable up to Windows XP with the Master Boot Record scheme. HFSExplorer for Windows is free and updated for Windows 10, but requires the installation of the Java 5 or later runtime environment (JRE), which can introduce security issues unless you configure it carefully.įor Ubuntu users and those with Unix or Linux distributions that can support hfsprogs, you can turn to a detailed thread at Ask Ubuntu for advice on mounting in read-only mode or, with some additional effort, as read/write. Paragon is a long-time developer of cross-platform Mac/Windows disk mounting software, and its HFS+ for Windows 10 works on Windows releases all the way back to XP and Windows Server 2003 all the way through the present Windows 10 release. The trouble is that the drive is already formatted-this limits options, but it’s neither expensive nor impossible to proceed. But the problem is I can’t access this HDD from my PC which has Windows and Linux.
I bought a new external HDD for my mac about a month ago and formatted it to Mac OS X Extended Journaled. Rakesh Shewale writes with a common question about formatting compatibility:
