Mac formatted Seagate 3 terrabye usb 3.0 can't be viewed in Windows 8

I need my data off my hard drive. I had a Macbook pro that was stolen from a cafe. I have a backup Seagate drive. I guess Windows 8 can't pull up the terrabyte drive. I have tried HFSExplorer and Macdrive. I also tried Windows 7. They sometimes see the drive but they can't mount it. I have an old g5 mac. It seems to have the same problem. It can't mount the drive. I need a project folder off my backup drive. What I want to do is copy that one folder to my google drive. I don't think the genius bar would do it but I went to Best Buy and they want 100.00 to copy the drive to a usb drive. I don't want it on a USB drive I want it on my google drive.
Thanks,

Your very first post shows that you were using 10.6.8, Snow Leopard on the stolen MBP, which is why I asked. Having been bitten by the bug myself, I have to do formatting, partitioning and erasing of at least internal drives while booting from Snow Leopard or Lion to avoid it.
The Seagate drives I've removed and worked on bare were all initially formatted and partitioned by me in their enclosures to work with a Mac. After I removed them, I found a hidden Master Boot Record as the first partition on the drives that formatting within their enclosures didn't touch. It's as if the GoFlex base needed that to support communication with whatever computer it happened to be connected to (mine started out as Windows externals).
Since Mavericks seems associated with these problems, the Genius bar might be willing to check out the drive, though I doubt they'll have any pre-Mavericks computers around.

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My questions continue below in red. Thank you for your patience.
LaPastenague wrote:
Tsac77 wrote:
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