It’s such a bummer – I’ve been having a ball editing on Windows 7 using the Adobe CS4 suite with nary a problem. As a matter of fact, virtually all my other applications work flawlessly on Windows 7 and over all I have to say my workflow is now even faster and more efficient, particularly on the Windows 7 64 bit platform.

However there is one exception that really throws this all off and that’s the fact that MacDrive does not work with Windows 7 at all. You can’t even install it.

Mediafour is aware of the problem and doesn’t seem to care too much right now. Here is what they have to say about this.

Since some of my clients use external firewire drives formatted for the Mac, I’ve been using MacDrive for some time with great success on XP.

So if you plan on jumping over to Windows 7 (and I recommend it) then you won’t be able to use MacDrive.

One workaround:

1) Set up dual boot on your system. Say Windows 7 plus Windows XP.

2) Boot into Windows XP, import your footage to your main editing drive (I use RAID 0 drives for raw files) from those Mac-formatted drives using MacDrive as usual.

3) Restart and boot into Windows 7. This will work. A pain in the butt for sure but until Mediafour gets its act together there’s no other way.