Recently I had a coworker request the ability to read an HFS+ formatted drive with Windows. I found a few scattered articles that pointed to Apple’s “Boot Camp Support Software” including an HFS+ driver, and it does.

How to add read only HFS+ support to Windows (64-bit) using Apple’s HFS+ drivers

Download the latest “Boot Camp Support Software”

Search the Apple support site for “boot camp support software”

• http://support.apple.com/downloads/#boot camp support software

I used “Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5640”

• http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1721

Extract BootCamp.msi from \BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\

Opening the msi with Orca revealed two drivers as well as the registry entries required to make them work.

Extract the files from BootCamp.msi

(I used 7-Zip)

Copy the drivers

Copy AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys to c:\windows\system32\drivers

Add registry entries

Based on the information from BootCamp.msi I created the following registry entries.

Copy the text below into a .reg file and execute it to add the required entries.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\AppleHFS]
“ErrorControl”=dword:00000001
“Group”=”File System”
“Start”=dword:00000000
“Type”=dword:00000002
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\AppleMNT]
“ErrorControl”=dword:00000001
“Group”=”System Bus Extender”
“Start”=dword:00000000
“Type”=dword:00000001

Reboot!