OSX Raid HD on Windows 7

xcaliber

xcaliber

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So heres the issue. I have a 2 - 1TB hard drives in an external raid enclosure. they are mirrored and i did so through OSX. The problem is that I want to be able to use this back up drive on my pc tower which I recently installed windows 7 ultimate x64. I can see the hard drives when i go to disk management, but it shows them individually and I can not access them. I assume it has something to do with incompatibility between OSXs raid setup and windows. I did some research and installed MacDrive 8, but I still can not access the drives. Any ideas or tips would be helpful.

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try G-Parted live, you'll need to burn it to a CD, format the drives You also have to setup RAID before you install windows.
 
yea i've heard of g-parted. as far as formating it and setting up the raid before i install windows, the drives are external drives in a 2 drive enclosure that i setup as a raid through OSX. what i really need to know is if there is a way to be able to move these drives from a mac book pro to my windows 7 tower.

edit: i would also like to make clear that i need read AND write capabilities and i can not use FAT
 
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ok so i have tried MacDrive 8, HFSExplorer, and TransMac...I can actually see the files and such with HFSExplorer, but it is a read only app. TransMac and MacDrive supposedly give me read/write capabilities, but they are not working. I can see both drives(which are according to windows "online" and working fine) and all partitions in Disk Management in Windows, but they do not show up under my computer.

I also have Ubuntu installed on my pc. When I connect the drive in that I can actually see and browse both drives but when I try to copy things to them it says I do not have permission. I check the permissions and it says it can not read the permissions. I connected it to my mbp again and checked the permissions and everything is set to read/write. I am at my wits end with this guys. Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
 
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