The MacBook Air SuperDrive has unique firmware which prevents it from being properly recognized as a plug and play optical USB drive by Windows. Fortunately, Apple provides the drivers for running Windows on a Mac, as part of its BootCamp software. If you download the latest release of BootCamp from Apple's support site, you will have a zip file wherein the path bootcamp drivers Apple contains the file 'AppleODDInstaller64.exe'. Simply execute this file to install the Apple Optical Disk Driver for 64 bit Windows, and presto! You can then use the MacBook Air SuperDrive with your Windows PC.
Jun 22, 2018 - Reading a PC-formatted drive on your Mac is no problem. Here are the tools you can use to work with NTFS-formatted drives on your Mac. Microsoft NTFS for Mac is available directly from Paragon Software for $19.95. HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images. (will only work if the disk image is stored in raw format, as in PearPC). How to read Mac hard drive.