fosk.it! 2.0

I have heard about MacDrive, which is probably one of the prettiest and most well-integrated solutions to read and write HFS+ partitions under Windows, but is $40 to $50.

I searched around a bit, and I eventually found HFSExplorer, an opensource (relased under GPL, v3) Java app designed to let you browse the contents of any HFS+ drives and partitions installed in your system. In addition to viewing the contents of said partitions, you can even extract files to any Windows writable disk. This is almost exactly what I was looking for, although there isn’t any HFS+ write support.

Linux users should not need HFSExplorer for browsing file systems on devices (have you already modprobed hfsplus?), but you might find this app useful for opening .dmg files.