My MBP hard drive just recently failed. Before sending it off to WD for a new one, I plugged it into my PC and lo and behold the bootcamp partition came up and I was able to grab some files. Unfortunately, I didn't sync my dropbox/drive and some files I want are on the osx side. Is there a way I can read it from my windows 7 desktop? Windows does not have native support for the HFS file system. However, Apple's boot camp drivers do enable read access to HFS partitions.

OS X El Capitan brought a makeover to Disk Utility, the all-purpose app for managing Mac’s drives. While it retains most of its key features, including the ability to partition a drive into multiple volumes, it has changed the process a bit. It does this by reading the settings partition to determine the boot partition for that OS, and then instructs the firmware to 'soft-reboot' using the OS's boot partition.

You may be able to install them on a non-apple PC. My MBP hard drive just recently failed.

Before sending it off to WD for a new one, I plugged it into my PC and lo and behold the bootcamp partition came up and I was able to grab some files. Unfortunately, I didn't sync my dropbox/drive and some files I want are on the osx side. Is there a way I can read it from my windows 7 desktop? Windows does not have native support for the HFS file system.

However, Apple's boot camp drivers do enable read access to HFS partitions. You may be able to install them on a non-apple PC.

Thank you so much, you have no idea how much of a headache you just saved me. Once thing I am still confused about. I went to the Apple store because my mbp wasn't booting into either os, W7 even said disc read error. They said the drive is failing. But, if i can still get the files off it, how is the drive dead?

My MBP hard drive just recently failed. Before sending it off to WD for a new one, I plugged it into my PC and lo and behold the bootcamp partition came up and I was able to grab some files. Unfortunately, I didn't sync my dropbox/drive and some files I want are on the osx side. Is there a way I can read it from my windows 7 desktop?

Windows does not have native support for the HFS file system. However, Apple's boot camp drivers do enable read access to HFS partitions. You may be able to install them on a non-apple PC. Thank you so much, you have no idea how much of a headache you just saved me. Once thing I am still confused about. Background highlight tab word for mac. I went to the Apple store because my mbp wasn't booting into either os, W7 even said disc read error. They said the drive is failing.

But, if i can still get the files off it, how is the drive dead? 'Disk Read Error' is pretty generic and could be caused by a lot of things, including drive failure. Without being able to look at it directly I wouldn't be able to tell you what the problem is conclusively. You may be able to take a look at the drive's S.M.A.R.T data using a utility like HDTune or Crystal Disk Info and see if it's self reporting any failures.

OS X comes with a variety of tools and utilities for managing your system (available in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder), including those for observing OS activity, network and disk activity, and also those for managing some aspects of the hardware in your system. One of the most commonly used utilities is Disk Utility, which allows you to create disk images, burn DVDs and CDs, as well as manage the partitions and formatting of your hard drives. Disk Utility comes both in the form of the Disk Utility application, but also as the 'diskutil' terminal command. Disk Utility showing hidden drive partitions. The Disk Utility application is built to be relatively straightforward and allow you to see each device and add, resize, or remove user-accessible disk partitions as is needed for a particular drive.