Built Like A Rock Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I just installed Mac Drive on Windows XP Service Pack 2 (fresh install), and I restarted the computer as it asked me to. After the Windows loading screen, my pc would reboot. It would reboot at the same point everytime unless I selected use last known good configuration (or whatever its called), but doing that would prevent macdrive from running/letting me see the HFS+ drive I have on my pc. I have used this program before and on my previous install of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and it worked fine. Anyone know how to fix this? BTW I have a NTFS 80 gig harddrive that Windows XP service pack 2 on. That is Disk 0. My Mac HFS+ drive is Disk 1. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Built Like A Rock Posted February 23, 2006 Author Share Posted February 23, 2006 I figured it out, nevermind!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-61329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I had this same problem, and after many Safe-mode boots, and two 'load most recent good settings' or whatever, I gave up on Macdrive on that machine. Please enlighten us with your solution! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-61346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phor2zero Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 i'd like to know how you got it working as well. mine installed and worked fine at first, I could read the physical hard drive i had installed macosx on with vmware, but as soon as I booted into osx native, windows lost the drive letter i had given it (x:) and macdrive couldn't see it anymore. so i just uninstalled it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-61361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maq Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 same here.. macdrive is fussy and paternal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-61663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maq Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I found a new program that lets me access my mac partition - Ext2IFS. You can get it at http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm I actually installed it to view a linux partition, but it let me assign a letter to my hfs+ partition, too. I still have macdrive installed so I don't know whether or not it works alone, but it's free so give it a try. You can access external hard-drives with this thing, too, which might be cool in the future. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-64842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hi, issues with macdrive can be caused by chipset IDE drivers. For example it will only work with the newest nForce4 IDE drivers. If you can't find a working driver, try the windows standard drivers. They worked for me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-64882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayland Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hi, issues with macdrive can be caused by chipset IDE drivers. For example it will only work with the newest nForce4 IDE drivers. If you can't find a working driver, try the windows standard drivers. They worked for me The biggest problem, why is won't work, is Hyperthreading. Disable it and it might work for you again. That program is picky bout so many things... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-64998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I found a new program that lets me access my mac partition - Ext2IFS. You can get it at http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm I actually installed it to view a linux partition, but it let me assign a letter to my hfs+ partition, too. I still have macdrive installed so I don't know whether or not it works alone, but it's free so give it a try. You can access external hard-drives with this thing, too, which might be cool in the future. Sounds good, the only downside with ExtIFS is that it is read only, so you won't be able to write, delete or change files... The biggest problem, why is won't work, is Hyperthreading. Disable it and it might work for you again. That program is picky bout so many things... I see. Thanks for the hint, I will try this Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-65066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phor2zero Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I have the latest Nforce4 chipset drivers. I tried that Ext2IFS program.... it didn't work. I tried both with Macdrive enabled and disabled, and either way I couldn't give a drive letter to my HFS partition. I also don't have hyperthreading on this processor (AMD) so, I can't figure out how to get a drive letter assigned to the disk. It's an HFS partition on a full 40GB hard drive (ATA). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-65836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 I have the latest Nforce4 chipset drivers. I tried that Ext2IFS program.... it didn't work. I tried both with Macdrive enabled and disabled, and either way I couldn't give a drive letter to my HFS partition. I also don't have hyperthreading on this processor (AMD) so, I can't figure out how to get a drive letter assigned to the disk. It's an HFS partition on a full 40GB hard drive (ATA). You have to update to the latest macdrive version in order to make macdrive see hfs *partitions*. Just go on the website and dl the update. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-66560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maq Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Strange, the main page of Ext2IFS says it can't write, but I can write just fine. If you don't have a drive letter set, you have to do this in the "IFS Drives" control panel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-66622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary King Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Hi, issues with macdrive can be caused by chipset IDE drivers. For example it will only work with the newest nForce4 IDE drivers. If you can't find a working driver, try the windows standard drivers. They worked for me How do you do this? MacDrive won't show me my HFS+ partitions in My Computer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9749-need-help-with-macdrive/#findComment-79199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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