Can I access mac formatted hard drive on Windows?

1. Use fsapfsmount for APFS

This is part of libfsapfs and is meant to mount an APFS container. It is mainly a forensic/read-only style tool, so it is better for safe file access than for normal daily use.

Example:

fsapfsmount \\.\PhysicalDrive3 M:\

2. Use 7-Zip command line for .dmg files

If your “Mac drive” is actually a DMG image file, not a physical disk, I’d use 7-Zip from command line to extract it instead of mounting it. AppleInsider notes that 7-Zip can open and extract DMG contents on Windows.

Example:

7z x file.dmg -oC:\temp\dmg_extract

3. Use hfsfuse for older HFS+ volumes

If the Mac disk is HFS+, there is also hfsfuse, a FUSE driver that mounts an HFS+ volume using a command like hfsfuse volume mountpoint. This is more technical, but it is another CLI-style route for older Mac-formatted disks.

Example:

hfsfuse \\.\PhysicalDrive3 M:\

If you just want the safest practical route to, I’d still pick hdimount first, because it explicitly supports both HFS and APFS on Windows through Dokany and is read-only. That makes it a cleaner choice when you want to access mac formatted hard drive on Windows without risking writes to the source disk.

This is part of libfsapfs and is meant to mount an APFS container. It is mainly a forensic/read-only style tool, so it is better for safe file access than for normal daily use.