How do I get files off Mac drive in Windows? (Mac drive is connected to PC)

My iMac became FUBAR about a month ago where when I went to boot it up I was greeted by a question mark over a folder, otherwise indicating my drive was not working. Since I had no warranty left on my iMac, I opened it up and took out the drive and connected it to my PC to see if I could retrieve anything off of it. I was lucky and the drive was somehow still alive and accessible. In Windows I am able to browse the Windows partition I created with BootCamp and copy those files just fine. What I was wondering was how do I go about accessing the Mac partitioned drive to get photos I have stored on there? I am using MacDrive 7 which is suppose to do this but gave me a bunch of folders and I didn't know where to go. Folders I tried accessing said I needed to format the drive in order to explore but that's no good. Any help? I really need these photos.

If you can access the drive using MacDrive, the path to your user home folder is
<top level>/Users/<your short user name>/
I don't know of any way to access that drive, other than connecting it to another Mac.

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