Jul 06, 2010 I would suggest you to take the backup of all the files present in the external hard drive in the Mac computer and then connect it to windows 7 and format the drive and choose NTFS format and check if the issue is fixed. While the external hard drive connected to the Windows computer or Mac, and the device did not show up. If it all not get working, you can follow the next solution to fix the external hard drive not recognized on Windows computer and Mac. Formatted hard drive and virus attacked.
Hi, I know the thread is old, but this just happened to me and I'm traveling abroad so I was completely distraught to not know if my hard drive was fubar'ed with all my pics and such when the motherboard on my macbookpro went pop. Bought tiny Acer netbook and was able to download the HSFExplorer software. The Java stuff was a PITA to download and get right for some reason, but not being completely savvy with peecees likely caused some of that frustration. I field stripped the macbookpro, slapped the drive in a spare enclosure and did a little good juju dance before plugging it in. It worked and the data survived! The drive does not automatically pop up in the program's window: you have to tell the program to 'load from device' under the 'file' pulldown.
The other software that worked for me was TransMac. It's not free by any means at $48 USD, but it's interface is more friendly and intuitive (thought dated looking, but when you are distraught about your data the working/intuitive gui is by far more important than the shiny baubles of the gui) and that might be worth alot to some. I also tried MacDrive but it would not run on my netbook for some reason or another and since it costs a tiny bit more than TransMac I didn't bother pursuing the 'why' of it. Cheers and good luck out there! For FAT32 Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X. No individual file larger than 4GB.
NTFS Read/Write NTFS from native Windows. Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X. To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard) HFS Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer.