MacDrive 5 PC CD view macintosh CD contents on Windows computer, format discs Type: Application Platform: Windows Publisher: MediaFour Released: 2002 Media: CD MACDRIVE 5 The award-winning MacDrive is a great way to share files between Mac OS and Windows. With MacDrive 5 installed, you can use Windows Me, 98, 95, NT 4.0, 2000 or XP and seamlessly access Mac disks of all types, including floppy, Zip, Jaz, CD-ROM, CD-R, hard drives and more! With MacDrive, accessing a Mac disk from Windows really is as easy and popping in the disk and clicking on the drive icon. You can open, edit, save and copy files on Mac disks just as easily as files on any other disk, and what's more, you can even format Mac disks, all from Windows.Many popular software packages exist in versions for both Windows and Mac OS, and are so similar in design and function that they are file-compatible. For example, a file created by Microsoft Excel for Macintosh can also be understood by Microsoft Excel for Windows. Even when using such "cross-platform" compatible software, a major and long-standing problem has been the lack of a straightforward way to transfer files between computers of different types.Mac and PC disks cannot normally be shared between the two types of computers, as each stores the documents you create on disks in different and incompatible ways. Normally, a disk formatted on one platform will not be recognized by the other. Modern Mac systems do include software that allows them to understand PC disks, but the results are not always desirable, and this does nothing to address the problems experienced by Windows users needing files from Mac disks.MacDrive addresses this problem in a very straightforward manner: it gives the Windows desktop, Explorer and any software running under Windows the ability to freely open and save files on Macintosh disks. With MacDrive, when you wish to use a Mac disk, you don't need to run any software—to open or save files on a Mac-formatted disk, you just put it in and use it like any other disk. MacDrive can share all types of files between Macintosh and Windows, but it does not interpret or modify files. This means that you can share all types of files on Mac disks, but you need to have both Windows and Mac OS software that can understand the files you intend to share.MacDrive provides user-modifiable behaviors so that files created under Mac OS appear with appropriate file name extensions under Windows, and files created on Mac disks under Windows appear with appropriate icons under Mac OS. You can even format Mac disks and both create and decode MacBinary files with convenient shortcut menu options. MacDrive is a powerful, fast, flexible, cost-effective and straightforward way to accommodate your Mac/PC file sharing needs. MacDrive is easy to install, works immediately, and quietly provides Windows with the power to access files on Mac disks from any software, at any time.For Windows (32-bit Systems) [*Please review compatibility/platform sections in 'What You Get']
