Thanks to its straightforward interface and comprehensive help file, it can be safely used by all types of users. This is one of the most effective ways to control your Macintosh hard disks from a Windows workstation. However, administrative privileges are required to run the tool without any issues. Caution, Thunderbolt disks are not supported yet. However, you might choose instead a format you can use easily with OS X, Windows, and Linux. HD (High Density) floppy disks (1.44 MB), Plain hard disks without any capacity limit (see also our page on Disk Interfaces and on Huge disks). A drive formatted in this fashion can be swapped between a Mac and Windows PC. TransMac worked flawlessly in our tests and didn't affect computer performance at all, leaving just a minimal footprint on hardware resources. MacDisk is a 32-bit application and runs under all recent versions of Windows (Vista and 7/8/10 included, even 64 bits). Resourceful and approachable tool for controlling Mac images from Windows For instance, TransMac has read-only access set by default but, in case you wish to benefit from all its features, you can allow write access as well. It's possible to also configure the way Mac-formatted disks are accessed on Windows. Last but not least, it sports a comprehensive search tool to search for virtually any type of file as well as for extensions and other types of data that may be stored on the Macintosh hard disks. Burn images for Mac and configure settingsĪdditionally, TransMac comes with dedicated features to help users format any disk to be later accessed from Mac OS X, as well as to burn images in various formats, including DMG, IMG and ISO. Users can perform a number of actions, including reading and writing data, but also copy, rename and delete files and folder just like on a regular disk.

The application automatically detects the Macintosh disks, regardless if they are regular hard drives, CDs, DVDs or removable drives.

Thanks to a clean and easy-to-navigate interface, the application allows users to transfer files from HFS (Mac OS Standard) and HFS+/HFSX (Mac OS Extended and case sensitive) disks to their Windows hard drives. TransMac is a powerful software solution that allows you to copy any type of file from Mac OS X-formatted disks which can't be accessed from Microsoft's operating system without specialized tools.

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