Will WinXP read OS X HD installed in PC

My Mac recently died (3rd power supply) and I need to retreive my files on the Mac HD. We installed the drive into my PC and realized that Windows may not be able to read the data on the drive because the file system is diferent. I do not have another Mac to back up my data. How do I retrieve my stuff?

Hi, SiStaB. What Niel suggests is true — MacDrive will read the Mac disk. But copying anything from the Mac disk onto a PC-formatted disk may wreck some of the copied files for later use on another Mac, since the PC's file system provides no place for some of the information that many Mac files contain, and that Mac applications require them to contain.
If you're planning to get another Mac soon, leave all the data on the old Mac's drive unchanged. If you must work with some of the files on that drive using a PC in the meantime, first make copies of those files on the PC's drive, then save all your changes to those copies on the PC's drive rather than the Mac drive, and don't delete anything from the Mac drive. When you get a new Mac, either mount the old drive inside it as a second drive, if there's room, or mount it in an external hard drive enclosure and connect that to the new Mac. This will give you access to all your old files in the same state they were in when your old Mac failed. Copying them to a PC drive and then copying them from there to a new Mac would not preserve all the files intact.

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