I have a Lacie 4TB external HDD which have 1.5 TB of data but I am not able to access it as it looks like the the file system of the volume which contains my data is Apple's File System and I cant find any way to access it from windows machine.
Please Help!!!
EDIT : Is it even possible? Or Do I need to hack my way through it? Cause I really dont wanna pay any direct/indirect singly penny to Apple.
These tools can be used:
https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse for Linux
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/apfs-windows for Windows
Apple has not released the specs yet. I only know of two companies with beta versions for using on Windows: Transmac by Acute Systems and Macdrive from Mediafour.
Today I needed to read my APFS partition from desktop Windows machine. As I already answered here there is a free for now (preview-version) APFS for Windows by Paragon. It worked perfectly well for me in read-only mode.
You can use software called "UFS Explorer Standard Access". From version 5.23.3 they started supporting APFS. Verified, working!
Download it HERE - Just to mention that freeware version is useless, because it has some filesize limit! And it's too-too expensive, I think nobody cracked it yet. If I find some other solution I will update the post!
It supports:
Windows (FAT, ExFAT, NTFS, ReFS),
Mac OS (HFS, HFS+, APFS),
Linux (Ext, UFS, XFS, ReiserFS)
UPDATE:
There is another one "MacDrive from Mediafour" It's 5-day full trial.
Apple has not released specs at this time so currently only experimental software is available. apfs-fuse is an open source project attempting to implement support via FUSE. Paragon is working on a driver but has yet to release any details on how to get it. I don't know about anything else yet.
I use MacDrive 11 Standard, it is not free. It also allows to mount and repair drives formatted in HFS+ and APFS.
I couldn't find any free solutions that worked for me, but I found a less expensive option than others: APFS Aware. Note that it provides read-only access.
There is certainly a way to read the data off the disk, although not natively (in the file explorer).
The easiest way to read it is using one of many "Linux Reader"-like applications, that allow you to read almost any file system used on Linux, Windows or Mac (Linux Reader from DiskInternals can read your drive).
The second easiest way would be to mount the drive in a Live Linux environment (Debian, Ubuntu etc.) and do it there since Linux systems have modules for all modern file systems (including NTFS for Windows and HFS+ for Mac).
