Hello Gordon and all
I have just done a quick web search on Mac Fusion, and it doesn't appear
to be the tool we need.
What we would like to know is how, in Mac Os X, to decrypt a time
machine backup stored, say, on an external hard drive, so that we can
use the drive under Windows.
I know all about Windows not supporting the Hfs file system, but we
could format the drive as Xfat, then both Mac and Windows will read and
write to that drive.
Thanks!
Chris.
On 11/01/2013 19:24, chris h (sky) wrote:
Hello Gordon
I will take a look at Mac Fusion but I would also be interested in
commercial offerings.
Chris.
On 11/01/2013 18:21, Gordon Smith wrote:
Chris
Are you asking about the free options, or the commercial offerings? I
personally use the commercial offerings because one runs on Mac OS,
whilst the other rungs under Windows. Used in a suite, (although
purchased separately) they complement one another. It isn't really
perfect yet, as demonstrated by the problem I encountered this week.
But for the most part it works. If you're enquiring about the free
offering which only runs on Mac OS, do a Google search for "Mac
Fusion" (not to be confused with VMWare Fusion which is a totally
different and unrelated product.
On 11 Jan 2013, at 15:18, chris h (sky) <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello all
so how do we do this please?
Thanks!
On 11/01/2013 13:30, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hi Gary
You'd need to do this via your Mac I think. The basic problem is
that Windows won't read HFS drives, whereas Mac OS will read NTFS
formatted media, but it cannot write to it (by default). There are
options to make this work, but most of them are problematic unless
you're prepared to by the commercial suite which makes each
compatible with the other.
Gordon
On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:12, Gary Price(Gmail) <[email protected]> wrote:
I will explain this subject below.
Hello everyone. My name is Gary Price from Bolton in lancashire,
England, United Kingdom.
I have recently bought a new 2 terabyte external hard drive. Last
year I bought a Macbook early 2008 off a friend.
I have setup my external hard drive for Time Machine. For those who
don't know Time Machine is like system restore for the Mac. When I
was setting it up it told me to encrypt the disk. So I just followed
the instructions.
I have got a desktop running Windows7 64 bit. Now my external is
encrypted, it will not show up in Windows explorer when I plugg it
in! But the strange thing is that it shows up in Safely remove hardware.
Please does anyone know if there is a way I can either de-crypt the
backup which Time Machine has done, or the entire disk?
I am asking this because I am soon going to be moving to Windows8, so
I want to put a folder with my important stuff onto it!
Many thanks I look forward to any responses.
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