“Just bought Surface Pro Go w/this enclosure to recover important files from my Macbook HDD (HItachi 2.5). I plugged it into my Surface, it makes the sound as though it's connected; in disk manager the drive shows up, but I can't access files”
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Macs use a different file system than PC, so there is no way your Surface will be able to read the drive. You will have to use a third party software such as MiniTool to accomplish this.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Drive is probably a different type of file system that Windows Surface cannot read. Apple products use HFS+ file system so you will need to use a program like HFSExplorer or other tool you can find on the web (usually free legally). Search for ‘Read Mac drive with Windows’ and you should be able to solve your problem.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This will not change the format of your files so any file files that are in a mac non-windows readable format would have to be converted first. the data should all be there.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I couldn’t access my files and folders either and that’s because you need to grant your new computer privileges access to the files. On a windows computer you will typically go to the Drive, right click on it and go to Properties. Go to the security tab and click on change permissions. You might need administrator access to it so if the dialog pops up just click on Okay. Apply the changes you make and the computer will run a long process that’ll eventually give you access to the drive.
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