HT2426 How can I explore the 1tb hard drive

My Mac Book Pro died and I want to explore my Time Capsule 802.11n Wi-Fi hard drive.
All I have is a windows 7 machine and I want to explore it with this computer but, I don't know if its possible because of the format difference.
Could someone please tell me if its possible and how to do it.
Thanks in advance. Tim

If you mean a time machine backup, that is not accessible to a PC. You will have to have a Mac to extract the files.
Buy a USB hard disk and visit a friendly Mac equipped neighbour who will let you do some recovery.. Plug in the TC and the USB drive and recover the whole backup to the USB disk. You can then access the files from a PC using HFS explorer. Note the USB drive still should be formatted HFS+ on the Mac not on the PC.
Better still buy a new Mac.

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