Mac/Win Software Review: MacDrive 7

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So we are using Windows XP through Apple’s Boot Camp. PC games including Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Far Cry and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth run with no problem on our iMac Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz at all.

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Screenshot 01: Game screenshot from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Mac Windows file share Mediafour MacDrive 7
Screenshot 02: Game screenshot from Farcry
Mac Windows file share Mediafour MacDrive 7
Screenshot 03: Game screenshot from The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth

Soon after we installed Windows XP, we started thinking about the best way of swapping files between Mac and Windows partitions. Fortunately, we have a lot of CD-RW and DVD-RW + disks. So we can just put Windows files and burn discs on Mac easily. But exchanging data in this way is kind of time-consuming. Is there an easy software solution for exchanging data between Mac and Windows?

Basically, a Windows operating system installed on your Mac’s internal hard disk drive cannot read data written on the Mac format. One software title that will let you read Mac data is MacDrive from Mediafour. With MacDrive, you can have real-time access to Mac data installed on media drives while using a Windows operating system. Hmm… Sounds good… Before using MacDrive 7, our innocent questions were

  • Do we gain access to Mac files that are installed not just on the internal hard disk drive but also on external drives?
  • Does MacDrive also let us access Windows files while we are using Mac OS?
  • So let’s see how MacDrive 7 works while we answer these simple questions one by one.  Continue reading