Ok, just wanted to put this up. I am asking to see if anyone knows if there is such a program that can be loaded on a PC, Windows XP most likely, so that if I plugged in a hard drive out of a Mac, it could read the hard drive just to get information off it. I never heard of such a program, but just wanted to see if any body here knew of such a thing.

Portable hard drive? Format it on the PC as Fat32 and the Mac will read it.

Sure..one's shareware and probably not very useful unless you buy it (the unregistered one only copies up to 1.4k), but the other one (which works on all windows) is HFV Explorer.It will read , copy, and work with any kind of mac disk , up to pretty much any size- same style as windows explorer too. It is freeware also...the only link i know about is now gone, but it shouldn't be too hard to find thru google etc. Hooking up your harddrive to the PC might be a little more problematic though...if youve got one of those newer PC's that can identify a new harddisk automatically(sectors and stuff), then as long as it's an IDE , you should be ok...otherwise you probably have to set up the harddrive manually. PC's, unfortunately, dont neccesarily automatically recognize a new harddrive without it being entered into the BIOS... I have no idea how you'd set it up if it is a scsi drive , however I think the newer macs use IDE a lot more, but frankly, i dont really know...havent had any reason to find out . I assume you need to use the PC to get the files of 'cuz you can't use the mac, for whatever reason..otherwise you could try setting up a null-modem between them...