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Workingin a multi-platform environment is a daily occurrence in schools, companies, in the studio, and on set. With MacDrive installed on your Windows PC, you can easily share files to and from APFS and HFS+ formatted internal drives, portable and desktop multi-bay drives, and even iPads. Regardless of the platform, you can read and write to the drive and then share those files. MacDrive gives you fully compatible and reliable out-of-this-world data sharing convenience.

MacDrive 11 is the most powerful solution for APFS disks available. With more features and protection MacDrive is the easy choice for accessing APFS disks on Windows. See how MacDrive beats the competition.

When you transform your PC with the power of MacDrive, you become a double-duty dynamo with complete Mac disk management. You can open, edit, and save files directly on Mac disks from any application. You can even format, create, and delete partitions on Mac disks making it possible to share data between computers like never before.

With the release of MacDrive 11, it has proven to be much more useful to me than Paragon APFS for Windows which I have used for years. Paragon APFS can only view the last APFS volume in the disk with no way to switch to other volumes. With MacDrive 11, I am able to switch APFS volumes with ease and can also see APFS snapshots on my backup disk which contains a very complex layout with 6 APFS volumes, 3 snapshots and one NTFS volume. It is my hybrid backup external drive for both Mac/Windows laptops.

I have recently tried your product (recommended by an Instructor) and was very impressed! Your software recovered a drive that I thought was gone forever. I am interested in your product at the academic level as the school uses Macs and I have PC at home.

1 Copying from an OWC ThunderBlade formatted APFS with (4) 1TB blades to a HP Spectre, Windows 11 (22H2), 16GB RAM, 11th Gen i7 @ 2.8GHz. Copy set was one folder containing 30 video files comprising 46GB.

2 To view Time Machine backups on APFS disks, you will need to turn on Hidden Items under the View menu in File Explorer. Seamless access for Time Machine backups on APFS disks is coming soon.

I had two physical drives in my laptop: a SSD and a HDD. I've had Windows 10 installed on SSD drive, and later I've installed Ubuntu on HDD with dual boot.Now I wanna replace that HDD with another SSD and do fresh installation of Ubuntu there. I've unplugged the HDD but I can't boot to Windows now - it says boot device not found. If I plug the HDD back I can still boot from there. How can I restore normal Windows booting, to make my laptop operable without that HDD, and then install Ubuntu with dual boot to a brand new drive? I've tried creating recovery USB drive, booting from there, running bootrec.exe/fixmbr and bootrec.exe/fixboot but it had no effect. bootrec/rebuildbcd said that it found windows installation but couldn't find some needed device (I guess it means that HDD, since it looks like it's a boot device now) How can I get rid of that dual boot consequences and fix Windows booting?

I've found the answer. If it could come in handy to someone - the thing was to create EFI partition on the drive where the Windows was installed. It looks like after installing dual boot Ubuntu it moved that partition to the partition where GRUB and Ubuntu were installed and I had to bring it back home.

If you get an error or something doesn't work when following these steps, there's more help available. This article lists just the first few things to try. There's much more information on the Microsoft community site in the Files, folders, and storage section. That section lists the wide variety of hardware and software configurations you might be dealing with. If you still need help, post a question there, Contact Microsoft Support, or contact the manufacturer of your hardware.

Cause: If you don't see the disk in File Explorer and it's listed in Disk Management as Not Initialized, the disk might not have a valid disk signature. It's either because the disk was never initialized and formatted, or the drive formatting has become corrupted somehow. It's also possible that the disk is having hardware problems or other issues as described further on in this article.

If the drive is new and just needs to be initialized, the solution is to initialize the disk. For more information, see Initialize new disks. But there's a good chance you've already tried this approach, and it didn't work. Or maybe you have a disk full of important files that you don't want the initializing process to erase.

There are many reasons a disk or memory card might be missing or fail to initialize, but the most common reason is that the disk is failing. There's only so much you can do to fix a failing disk. The following are some steps to try to get it working again. If the disk works after you've completed one of these steps, don't bother with the remaining ones. At this point, maybe update your backups.

Ignore any partitions that are listed as EFI System Partition or Recovery Partition. These partitions are full of important files that your PC needs to operate properly. It's best to just leave them alone to do their job of starting your PC and helping you recover from problems.

Shut down your PC, turn off your external hard disk (if it's an external disk with a power cord), and then turn your PC and the disk back on.To turn off your PC in Windows 10, select the Start button, select the Power button, and then select Shut down.

Plug the disk into a different USB port that's directly on your PC (not on a hub).Sometimes, USB disks don't get enough power from some ports, or they have other issues with particular ports. This issue is especially common with USB hubs, but sometimes there are differences between ports on a PC. So if you have other ports, try a few different ones.

Try a different cable.Cables fail often, so try using a different cable to plug in the disk. If you have an internal disk in a desktop PC, you need to shut down your PC before switching cables. See your PC's manual for details.

Check Device Manager for issues.Select and hold (or right-click) the Start button, then select Device Manager from the context menu. Look for any devices with an exclamation point beside it or other issues. Select the device and then read its status.

If the disk doesn't work on another PC, it's a good sign that there's something wrong with the disk, and not your PC. Search for and ask for help at the Microsoft community site, or contact your disk manufacturer or Microsoft Support.

If you just can't get it working, there are apps that can try to recover data from a failing disk. Or if the files are vitally important, you can pay a data recovery lab to try to recover them. If you find something that works for you, let us know in the comments section.

Disks fail often, so it's important to regularly back up any files you care about. If you have a disk that sometimes doesn't appear or gives errors, consider this a reminder to double-check your backup methods. It's OK if you're a little behind - we've all been there. The best backup solution is one you use, so we encourage you to find one that works for you and stick with it.

For more information on using apps built into Windows to backup files to an external drive such as a USB drive, see Backup and restore in Windows. You can also save files in Microsoft OneDrive, which syncs files from your PC to the cloud. If your hard disk fails, you'll still be able to get any files you store in OneDrive from OneDrive.com. For more information, see Sync files with OneDrive in Windows.

Cause: The basic or dynamic disk isn't accessible and might have experienced hardware failure, corruption, or I/O errors. The disk's copy of the system's disk configuration database might be corrupted. An error icon appears on disks that display the Unreadable status.

Disks might also display the Unreadable status while they're spinning up or when Disk Management is rescanning all of the disks on the system. In some cases, an unreadable disk has failed and isn't recoverable. For dynamic disks, the Unreadable status usually results from corruption or I/O errors on part of the disk, rather than failure of the entire disk.

Solution: Rescan the disks or restart the computer to see if the disk status changes. Also try the troubleshooting steps described in Disks that are missing or not initialized, plus general troubleshooting steps.

Cause: The Foreign status occurs when you move a dynamic disk to the local computer from another computer PC. A warning icon appears on disks that display the Foreign status.

In some cases, a disk that was previously connected to the system can display the Foreign status. Configuration data for dynamic disks is stored on all dynamic disks, so the information about which disks the system owns is lost when all dynamic disks fail.

Solution: Add the disk to your computer's system configuration so that you can access data on the disk. To add a disk to your computer's system configuration, import the foreign disk. Select and hold (or right-click) the disk, and then select Import Foreign Disks. Any existing volumes on the foreign disk become visible and accessible when you import the disk.

If the disk status is Offline and the disk's name changes to Missing, the disk was recently available on the system but can no longer be located or identified. The missing disk might be corrupted, powered down, or disconnected.

Cause: The basic or dynamic volume can't be started automatically, the disk is damaged, or the file system is corrupt. Unless the disk or file system can be repaired, the Failed status indicates data loss.

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