Cross-platform Drive Solutions:

Company

Product

Operating System

Description

Enables Windows to read, write, and format Mac-formatted storage media, including external hard drives, and iPods. MacDrive enables Windows to create Mac-formatted CDs, DVDs, and dual layer DVDs. Windows users can access Mac disks of all types from the desktop, Explorer and from any software. No special user interface is used; Mac drives appear where standard Windows drives appear. Automatically converts file names, eliminating characters not allowed.

MacDrive 8 also includes a utility for Windows called MacDrive Disk Manager, which adds the ability to analyze and repair Mac-formatted (HFS+) disks, MacDrive Disk Manager can also partition and format hard disks in HFS+. Another included utility, MacDrive CD/DVD Creator, can burn Mac CDs and DVDs.

Mediafour

XPlay

Windows software that lets you use Mac-formatted (and Windows formatted) iPods in Windows, whether on a PC or a Mac with Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMware. iTunes for Windows does not support Mac-formated iPods. Also unlike iTunes, XPlay can send music, playlists, videos, and photos from the iPod to Windows. iTunes can only send files to the iPod.

You can use XPlay by itself or with iTunes for Windows, and also can connect an iPod with Windows Media Player 11 and Vista Media Center. XPlay 3 can also recover music and videos that an iPod can no longer find, and can automatically convert unprotected WMA files to MP3. It also lets you move vCard contacts from Outlook and other contact managers to the iPod.

Acute Systems
PO Box 37
Algonquin, IL 60102

Email

TransMac

Windows 2000, 2003, XP, and Vista

Enables Windows to read, write and format Mac HFS, HFS+, and HFSX drives and discs. Users access Mac volumes with a File Explorer-type user interface with external drag and drop.

Long filename support. Search disk by Mac type/creator or PC extension.Multisession CD support. Keep or refresh file dates between copy.

New File Explorer type user interface with external drag and drop.
Can compress and expand Mac .DMG disk images. Can be used to access Mac partition from Boot Camp.

A JavaApp that enables Windows to browse Mac (HFS+) formatted drives and partitions. (A blogger wrote about using it with Boot Camp).

Digital Instrumentation Technology

Transfer Pro

Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX

Access Mac floppies and any SCSI media. Also contains file translators that can convert between Macintosh and PC graphics file formats, as well as graphics and text viewers for many file formats.

Interactive Information R&D

CDEveryWhere

Windows 95/98/NT/2000Me/XP

(Also available for Macintosh and UNIX)

Lets you create cross-platform (hybrid) CD-ROMs that include ISO9660, Joliet, RockRidge, and HFS. Lets you assign Macintosh type and creator file attributes based on file name or file content. Drag and drop the files or directories to create the disk image. AutoStart support for Macintosh, AutoRun support for Windows. Execute an application or open a document when the CD is inserted.

Logiciels & Services, Duhem
21, rue La Bruyere, 75009 Paris, France (+33) [0] 149-700-455 FAX: (+33) [0] 149-700-456 email

MacDisk

(French version also available) 

Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista

Reading, writing and formatting HD (High Density) floppy disks (1.44 MB), CD-ROMs, pure HFS, hybrid (HFS/ISO 9660) and even ISO 9660 CD-ROMs with Apple extensions DVD-ROMs, which are in fact just huge CD-ROMs. Plain hard disks (IDE) without any capacity limit (see also our page on Disk Interfaces). Windows NT/2000/XP only.

MacImage

(French version also available)

Windows NT, 2000, XP

Produces hybrid Macintosh/PC (HFS/ISO 9660) CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs on a PC. (DVD-ROMs are just bigger volumes.) Hybrid CD-ROMs behave like native media on both platforms (PC and Macintosh) and give all users the best possible experience when mounting the CD-ROM on their computer.
On a PC, those CD-ROMs behave like plain ISO 9660/Joliet CD-ROMs (autostart, long file names).