Editing HFS Plus (section)

=== Windows ===
As of May 2012, Apple has only released read-only HFS+ drivers for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 as part of the [[Boot Camp (software)|Boot Camp]] software in [[Mac OS X Snow Leopard|Mac OS X 10.6]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://support.apple.com/downloads/bootcamp |title=Apple – Support – Downloads – Bootcamp |website=apple.com |access-date=2016-10-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019152644/https://support.apple.com/downloads/bootcamp |archive-date=2016-10-19 }}</ref> This means users on these systems can read data on the HFS+ drive, but not write to them. Microsoft has created an HFS+ driver for the Xbox 360 mainly for the purpose of reading HFS+-formatted iPods.{{cn|date=October 2016}}

A free and opensource software – jHFSplus, based on HFSExplorer and jpfm – can be used to mount hfs/hfs+ partitions as read-only virtual folders.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/jhfsplus/ |title=jHFSplus |publisher=Shashank Tulsyan |date=2011-06-29 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709042442/http://sourceforge.net/projects/jhfsplus/ |archive-date=2011-07-09 }}</ref>

A freeware plugin for [[Total Commander]] exists, that can read, among others, HFS and HFS+ filesystems.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diskinternals.com/reader-for-tc/ |title=DiskInternals Reader for Total Commander |publisher=DiskInternals |date=2011-03-16 |access-date=2011-11-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116030040/http://www.diskinternals.com/reader-for-tc |archive-date=2011-11-16 }}</ref>

DiskInternals Linux Reader can be used to extract/save folders/files out of HFS and HFS+ Hard Drives/Partitions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ |title=DiskInternals Linux Reader |publisher=DiskInternals |access-date=2016-10-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406183418/http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader |archive-date=2012-04-06 }}</ref>

A commercial product, MacDrive, is also available for mounting HFS and HFS+ drives, optical discs, and other media in Windows Explorer, and allows both reading and writing to the volume, as well as repairing and formatting Mac disks.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/standard |title=MacDrive 9 Standard |publisher=Mediafour |date=2013-09-19 |access-date=2013-09-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921020510/http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/standard |archive-date=2013-09-21 }}</ref>

A commercial product, Paragon's HFS+ for Windows allows full read and write and disk management from all versions of Windows from Windows XP to Windows Server 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/|title=Write HFS+ volumes in Windows – Paragon HFS+ for Windows|access-date=2016-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013093423/https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/|archive-date=2016-10-13|url-status=live}}</ref>