# Help recovering a MAC formatted drive

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**Created:** [October 20, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-recovering-a-mac-formatted-drive/75143 "2009-10-20T19:47:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Griff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Griff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Griff)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-recovering-a-mac-formatted-drive/75143/1 "2009-10-20T19:47:26Z")

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My friend gave me their USB drive that ‘stopped working’. Problem is that i have a PC and its a MAC formatted drive. When i plug it in, it seems to show up fine as an “Unknown Partition” using Computer Management.

So how can i get these files off?

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**Author:** ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-recovering-a-mac-formatted-drive/75143/2 "2009-10-20T20:03:55Z")

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google that shit yo:

> **[How to Read a Mac Drive on a PC | Techwalla.com](https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-read-a-mac-drive-on-a-pc)**
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> The hard drives of Apple's Mac computers are formatted in a different way, known as HFS, than hard drives that have the Microsoft Windows XP installed on them. As a result,.....