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Running Windows on your Mac
Mount a linux (ext3) drive in a VM instance of Linux
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<blockquote data-quote="garycarroll" data-source="post: 787133" data-attributes="member: 81680"><p>Thanks, both of you, for the excellent suggestions. I probably will not buy the ExtFS (yet) since I only need to copy the data and then will probably reformat the drive for more compatibility. A one time operation.</p><p>I do like the suggestion of loading a freeware driver onto a virtual Windows and use that. When I looked I did not locate such a driver that sounded trustworthy, but your suggestion looks good and I will likely try it.</p><p> </p><p>The alternative that I came up with was booting from a DVD version of Linux, which presumably will be able to read the Linux formatted drive and not the Mac partitions. However, I can then copy the data to either an external USB drive, or could reformat the lightly used internal "scratch" drive to a mutually compatible format and move the data that way.</p><p>Again, thanks!</p><p></p><p>I will post here later to let others know how it came out... maybe it will help someone later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="garycarroll, post: 787133, member: 81680"] Thanks, both of you, for the excellent suggestions. I probably will not buy the ExtFS (yet) since I only need to copy the data and then will probably reformat the drive for more compatibility. A one time operation. I do like the suggestion of loading a freeware driver onto a virtual Windows and use that. When I looked I did not locate such a driver that sounded trustworthy, but your suggestion looks good and I will likely try it. The alternative that I came up with was booting from a DVD version of Linux, which presumably will be able to read the Linux formatted drive and not the Mac partitions. However, I can then copy the data to either an external USB drive, or could reformat the lightly used internal "scratch" drive to a mutually compatible format and move the data that way. Again, thanks! I will post here later to let others know how it came out... maybe it will help someone later. [/QUOTE]
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