under windows you can mount your amiga hdd with winuae. it works perfectly, i copied everything important from my old amiga hdd to a ntfs partition with dopus4:)
i guess the osx version of uae knows the same. for vmware try aros. linux also is an alternative.
DEAD pegII/G4@1000.1gb ram.radeon 9200pro
240 gigz hd.nec dvdrw.MorphOS 2.4 DEAD
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amiga1200T.blizzardppc@180/040@25.96megz ram
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zx.spectrum@3.5