It does require Java, however, so you’ll have to install that first. It’s the only completely free way to access a Mac-formatted drive. If you only need to get a couple files off the drive, we recommend HFSExplorer. RELATED: How to Restore Files From a Time Machine Backup on Windows Option One: HFSExplorer Is Free and Basic But be absolutely sure there’s nothing you need before you do. Of course, if the drive doesn’t have any important files on it, you can go ahead and format it. Just don’t format the drive until you get the important files off the drive. That’s fine, because other applications do. One reader wrote to say renaming the "Toast CD Reader" by adding a SPACE as the first character in the name - forcing it to load first, allows CD burners to work with the new driver.This message appears because Windows doesn’t understand Apple’s HFS+ file system. Unfortunately, the edit doesn't work with every combination of CD drive and computer, but of the thousands that have performed the edit, I have received only a few emails of failure. Your Apple supplied CD ROM driver will now mount most SCSI CD ROM Drives! When you're finished, replace the original driver with the new one and restart your computer. The graphic above, and the table below show the second change to be made to the driver. Find the original value at the appropriate row and offset, and change it to the new value.īelow is a table for first change in the various AppleCD drivers. The screenshot above for the Apple CD/DVD Driver 1.0.1 is representative of the changes to be made in all the drivers. Open ID# 32 with a double-click. If you get an error about the resource size, open it using the menu item "Open using Hex Editor" Open a copy of the CD Driver in ResEdit and find the DRVR resources.
One drawback was the fact you had to keep two copies of the CD extension active: the original for Apple's drives, and a modified version for non-Apple drives. Several readers emailed to point out an excellenct article in c't Magazine that showed how to use ResEdit on Apple CD/DVD drivers to make them recognize any CD ROM drives - not just Apple's. The text below is a verbatim copy of the same hosted on the wayback machine.
This article was hosted on the excellent ResExcellence site.
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