Monday, October 6, 2014

Paragon HFS Plus For Windows 8/8.1

If you have installed Windows 8 making use of Boot Camp on a Mac computer, or you plug in an external drive that has been set up on Mac, chances are that you only have limited access to any drive or partition that has been formatted in the HFS+ format that is used by Apple Mac computers. This is because Apple only provides read-only drivers to access Mac formatted drives on Boot Camp Windows installs on Macs, while Windows itself comes without any support. Free read-only utilities exist, but if you wish to get full access to a HFS+ drive, you will have to pay for it.

Paragon HFS+ for Windows 8 or 8.1 Free Edition is one of those applications that does what it says on the package. After installing, your Windows 8.1 or 8 powered computer, or Mac running Windows 8 or 8.1 through Boot Camp, will be able to freely access any HFS or HFS+ formatted hard drive just like it was FAT, NTFS, or exFAT. This means full read and write access. You will have to register the program with Paragon free of cost during the setup process to get a product key and serial number. Paragon also strongly recommends the users to disable the Fast Start up option in Windows 8 OS. This can be done through the Power Options in Control Panel of all the Windows 8 versions.

This should be done before installing the driver to prevent possible corruption to the file system, even though some of the users have installed it with the Fast Startup feature enabled without facing any issues. This simply works out of the box too. Some of the previously inaccessible drives showed up like any other and the user will now be able to easily transfer the data to and from a Mac computer using an external HFS+ formatted drive as intermediary. A paid version is also available that supports all the Windows 8 versions and other versions of Windows like XP and above. This allows commercial usage and also extends support to the newer HFSX format if it is needed.

If you would like to know more on Paragon HFS+ for Windows 8 or 8.1, you can contact the Windows tech support team. They will be able to tell you more on this and the latest features of the program.

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