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What is the best mac drive reader for windows 10/11
My dad needs me to backup some files from her old mac external HD but I'm on 10 pc. Windows doesn't recognize the drive as it was formatted on a Mac. Don't really wanna reformat it cuz idk what that'...
Two other command-line-ish options I’d look at are these:
1. fsapfsmount for APFS drives
If the Mac drive is APFS, I’d try fsapfsmount. It’s part of libfsapfs, which is a read-only APFS access project, and the tool’s own usage says it mounts an APFS container.
fsapfsmount \\.\PhysicalDrive3 M:\
2. 7z if what you have is a DMG file, not a physical drive
If the “Mac drive” is actually a .dmg image file, I’d use 7-Zip from command line to extract it instead of looking for another mac drive reader. 7-Zip has an official command-line version for Windows, so this is an easy fallback for image files.
7z x backup.dmg -oC:\temp\dmg_extractSo if you want another mac drive reader approach: use fsapfsmount for APFS, or 7z if you’re opening a DMG rather than a real external disk.