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MacDrive for Windows
Read and write Mac-formatted HFS+ and APFS drives from Windows Explorer with MacDrive, a paid disk utility with a five-day trial.
- Operating system
- Windows 10 and 11; Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025
- Architecture
- Non-ARM Windows PCs; exact CPU architecture not specified in the cited pages
- Download package
- EXE installer
Publisher explicitly excludes ARM-based systems. The download is the full installer with a five-day trial.
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What is MacDrive?
MacDrive gives Windows access to files on Mac-formatted drives. HFS+ and APFS volumes appear as drive letters in Windows Explorer, so you can copy files between a Mac disk and your PC without converting the disk to another file system. MacDrive 12 also supports password-authenticated access to encrypted APFS volumes and supports SoftRAID and Apple RAID volumes.
Its disk tools let you create, partition and format Mac disks from Windows. Disk repair is limited to HFS+ volumes; APFS read/write support does not mean APFS repair is available. The publisher lists Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025, but explicitly excludes ARM-based systems.
The publisher offers the full installer as a five-day trial. Continued use requires a paid license. The accompanying source-gallery screenshot shows an older MacDrive Disk Manager interface, not a verified view of the version 12 interface.
What it offers
- Read and write HFS+ and APFS Mac-formatted volumes from Windows.
- Access Mac disks as drive letters in Windows Explorer.
- Open encrypted APFS volumes with password authentication in MacDrive 12.
- Create, partition and format Mac disks; repair HFS+ disks.
- Access supported SoftRAID and Apple RAID volumes.
Good to know
- ARM-based Windows systems are not supported.
- The full installer runs in trial mode for five days; continued use requires a paid license.
- Mac disk repair is available only for HFS+ volumes, not APFS.
Product images
Sources
References used for this listing. Retrieval dates do not indicate hands-on testing.
- MacDrive - OWC Software Store ↗Retrieved
- MacDrive Downloads & Changelog - OWC Software Store ↗Retrieved
- MacDrive - Download ↗Retrieved
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