If you have a hard drive from Windows that you need to access on macOS, follow one of the routes below for accessing the file. But working with Windows hard drives still requires some setup and thought. There was a time when there was virtually no cross-compatibility between the operating systems, and files edited in Windows basically could not be transferred to the Mac. It’s much easier now than it use to be, of course.
Interacting with Windows from macOS has always been a pain.