No Target Disc Mode in new mac books? ?

California

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Nov 15, 2008

• #1

Did I miss this completely? There is NO target disc mode to boot up your new al macbook into?

Tried holding down the T key to USB the mac book into another computer (last revision PMG5) and the macbook does NOT boot into Target Disk Mode?

No firewire; fine. But I thought we could boot up in TDM to transfer files through USB to other Macs?

Am I missing something?

 

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JediMeister

macrumors 68040

• Nov 15, 2008

• #2

No, you're not missing anything...Target Disk Mode has been exclusively possible with a FireWire connection, I have never heard of anyone doing a migration through USB. Try these alternatives to migrating through Target Disk Mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1291

 

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hmai18

macrumors 6502

• Nov 15, 2008

• #3

Network migration or from a Time Machine backup are your only alternatives now.

 

HLdan

macrumors 603

• Nov 15, 2008

• #4

Yeah, no jokes but it's called "Firewire Target Disk Mode", henceforth it only works through Firewire. Sadly it's slowing disappearing from the Mac line but oh well, you have to move on.

 

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MacHappytjg

macrumors 65816

• Nov 15, 2008

• #5

its ethernet NOW or just like yea network... which i find much slower... anyone else?

 

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molala

macrumors 6502a

• Nov 15, 2008

• #6

HLdan said:

Yeah, no jokes but it's called "Firewire Target Disk Mode", henceforth it only works through Firewire.

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Not exactly. It's been around before firewire, works with SCSI - which was replaced with firewire around 2000. I hope Apple doesn't entirely kill target disk mode if they decide to abandon firewire.