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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

If you have a newer Apple Silicon Mac and an older Intel Mac lying around, you can connect the two using Sharing Mode, so that the older Mac appears as an external hard disk to your new machine.