View Time Machine backup drive on Windows 7

I use an external hard drive to regularly backup my Mac using Time Machine. However, I wanted to copy the data on this drive to a Windows 7 machine which does not work. It seems, that the PC recognices the external dirve, but does not list it.

Is it even possible to run the hard drive on a PC? I suggest this might be due to the formation. Is there a way to overcome this problem without re-formatting the disk?

You can read HFS+ disks on Windows by installing Apple's Boot Camp drivers:

• http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638

You can access an OSX formatted disk using 3d part applications such

HFSExplorer or Macdrive