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If you are one of those guys who runs Windows Vista and Mac OS X on the same computer, you know only too well how painful read a Mac hard disk from Vista is. To tell you the truth, it is quite impossible because they uses partitions formatted in different ways. The only solution you have got is to log off from Vista and log in Mac OS X to read and extract the files you need. Luckily for us, everything is going to change thanks to a small file which makes something really amazing, namely it lets you gain access to all of your Mac files (the whole hard disk indeed) from Vista.

HSFExplorer is a nice freeware utility which lets you read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images. It manages to read HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names), .dmg disk images created on a Mac, including zlib / bzip2 compressed images and AES-128 encrypted images. Furthermore, it also lets you “…browse your Mac volumes with a graphical file system browser, extract files (copy to hard disk), view detailed information about the volume and create disk images from the volume.” HSFExplorer is written in Java 5 and runs in Windows XP and Windows Vista. If you want to know more, click here. If you want to download it, click here.