You may have a FireWire crossover cable lying around if you have an external FireWire hard drive or other FireWire peripheral.Ĭonnect the computer you will be transferring files from (the host) to another Mac (the recipient) using a FireWire crossover cable. > FireWire or Thunderbolt Crossover Cables 1. > Two Macs with FireWire or Thunderbolt Ports Using this mode, you can connect your misbehaving Mac to another Mac and use it as an external hard drive, allowing you to retrieve your files and stow them at an alternative location.
To do this, we’ll use a little-known boot utility called Target Disk Mode. Occasionally your Mac may refuse to boot due to any number of problems however, you can still get to your important files so long as your hard drive is still intact.
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