How to Recover Data from An Inaccessible Mac using Target Disk Mode?

If you find yourself in a situation where your Mac is inaccessible due to some reasons and you are doubtful whether you can get can your data that existed on the hard drive of the Mac system. This problem may sound huge but believe me the solution is way easier.

About Target Disk Mode?

Target Disk Mode or TDM is a useful feature of Mac where two Macs are connected using a cable called ‘firewire’. The firewire cable connects the two Mac OSX in such a way that volumes of one computer appear as external drives on the other. TDM mode assists easy transfer of files and folders between two Macs.

Steps to follow in order to connect two computers using firewire:

Turn off the computer, whose volumes have to be used as external drives.

• Connect the two Mac systems with a FireWire cable.
• Start the Mac system to be used as drive, and then go to System Preferences from the Apple menu.
• Select Target Disk Mode from Start-up Disk menu.
• Restart the computer. A drive icon appears on the computer, and volumes of the computer are displayed on the other computer as external drives.

There is an alternate method of target disk mode where volumes of one computer can be used as external drive by simply pressing the T button when restarting the computer after being connected by firewire.

Files can be easily transferred by dragging and dropping. You can also run Mac Recovery software and select the external disk to be scanned by the software and perform recovery.

To disconnect target disk mode operation select the external drive and drag it to the trash bin. Shut down the Mac system being used as external hard drive and disconnect the firewire cable.

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