Mac hard drive read on a PC

[Sphegdave]

I have a question. I have a mac hard drive with data I need to recover off of it. The hard drive is in good physical shape, but I cannot find anything to read the mac filesystem in windows. What I would like to do is transfer all the data onto cds to bring over to an ibook or use the file sharing to do the same thing. Any suggestions on what program (s) I can use and any advice on the best way to go about this. Free is the preferable solution, but commercial programs are fine too. Thank you very much.

BTW the filesystem is an older one. I think its system 7 on the hard drive. The laptop is running 9

[jamesrpm]

Put the HD into a USB portable HD case ,plug it into your laptop.

[glc]

If it can't read it slaved into a Windows computer, it's not going to read it in a USB housing either.

http://www.dataviz.com/products/macopener/index.html

[Mac Medic]

I use MacDrive for this.

http://www.mediafour.com/

[Sphegdave]

well actually the hard drive will probably be read in the usb case, that was one of my options, but I didn't want to spend money on that where my client already has an external drive and wouldn't find it justafiable to buy another one. I can't use that one because it is a retail one by maxtor with the hard drive already in it and I don't want to touch that. I am going to see if I procure trials to those two programs. I'll report back to what worked. Thank you guys for your help :)