The Easy Solution for Accessing Mac Disks, Drives, and even RAID Volumes in Windows. Working in 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.
By installing OWC MacDrive on a Windows PC, you make it become "Mac aware" and can access Mac-formatted drives easily. There is nothing to launch or learn. MacDrive 11 Standard allows users to simply connect a Mac-formatted drive to your PC and it will behave like any other disk on the system. You will be able to read and write to almost any hard drive, SSD, CD, DVD, and more. You can even access SoftRAID and Apple RAID 0 and RAID 1 volumes with MacDrive 11 Pro. What's New in MacDrive 11? OWC MacDrive has been the industry leader for accessing Mac disks in Windows for over 25 years. With the introduction of MacDrive 11, we're excited to bring full support for Apple's new file system APFS to Windows. MacDrive's support for APFS is unmatched. You get more speed, features, and protection than any other solution. MacDrive provides full read and write support, APFS crash protection, multi-volume APFS disks, APFS formatting, and much, much more. New APFS Features: Full read and write support for APFS volumes APFS crash protection Supports multi-volume APFS disks Mount any snapshot on APFS volumes APFS formatting Read/write duplicated APFS file Read/write files that are included in snapshots Packed With Features You Can't Find Anywhere Else: FAST AND RELIABLE From filmmakers to recording artists, IT professionals, and students and faculty, thousands of Windows users rely on MacDrive's speed and data protection. HARD DISKS AND MORE Access almost any type of Mac-formatted disk including hard drives, DVDs, CDs and more just like you were using a PC disk. You can even mount a Mac in Target Disk mode! MANAGE MAC DISKS Along with quick access, MacDrive's Disk Manager enables you to take control of Mac disks with easy formatting, partitioning and even disk deletion. REPAIR MAC DISKS MacDrive's Disk Repair feature will automatically detect issues with Mac disk and will fix common errors on disks. (HFS+ only) TIME MACHINE BACKUPS MacDrive allows you to browse through Time Machine backups as well as copy those files and folders to your PC. NATIVE OR VIRTUAL You can use MacDrive on a Mac with VMware Fusion or Parallels. READ ONLY MacDrive Pro "Read Only" mode is perfect for forensic specialists to prevent changes to disks. FILE DEFRAGMENTATION Improve your disk performance with automatic file defragmentation and optimization. (HFS+ only) EVEN MORE DISK ACCESS WITH MACDRIVE PRO MacDrive 11 Pro takes Mac disks access in Windows even further with full read and write access to Mac APFS and HFS+ formatted SoftRAID and Apple RAID 0/1 volumes. With MacDrive 11 Pro your Windows PC can access almost any Mac disk available. MacDrive is Perfect For: Anyone using both Mac and Windows computers and needing to move data seamlessly and easily between systems Video and audio professionals editing projects in a cross-platform environment Students and educators with mixed computer labs or for example use Mac at school and PC at home Business users can easily exchange work between work and home computers. IT/System admins can easily manage mixed media without worrying about format complexities Law enforcement and data forensics can take advantage or read only mode and access disks without knowing their format and preserving data integrity