FireWire target disk mode has saved my bacon countless times. If you’re not familiar with FireWire target disk mode it transforms a Mac equipped with a FireWire port (either 400 or 800) into an ...

Target Disk Mode isn’t a new technology, but the fact that you can now transfer files using Thunderbolt 3 is new. Target Disk Mode allows you to quickly share files between two MacBook Pros using ...

If you have multiple MacBooks in your office and you want to be able to access one computer from another computer, use Apple's Target Disk mode. Target Disk mode is only supported over a FireWire ...

Reader Barry Wallack would like to take advantage of the wonder that is FireWire to use another Mac’s hard drive as a local volume. He writes: I am trying to connect two Macs together via a FireWire ...

Your iMac can access files located on one of your office MacBook computers, making it possible to quickly share files between devices, or attempt to recover data in ...

Brett Wickens reports "Since applying the G5 Firmware Update, my G5 will no longer boot from my Diskwarrior CD boot disk (which contains OS X 10.2.3). I get a brief flashing folder icon, then the G5 ...

I've got a black MacBook (first generation) and have, in the past, been able to put it in target disk mode and boot our 24" aluminum iMac off of it (which lets me use the big screen but run off the ...

I have a Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 (Mid-2010) running OS X 10.10.2 that was given to me by a coworker and I want to give it to someone who has a particular desire for this older system. I need to wipe ...

If Apple hasn’t yet made the Ethernet network port on your Mac obsolete by not including it, as is the case with most Macs sold today, then it may have accidentally broke the port last week in an OS X ...