Ok so like an a$$ I kept putting off getting a larger backup drive (I blame the wife) so I did not have a good backup of my system. My internal hd has taken a dump and I can no longer boot to it but I am able to access it by booting from an external drive. Of course with this problem I now bought a 2TB external hd that is USB3.0 but I only have USB 2.0 on my iMac and MBP.
So to get to my problem: I want to get some data off of my internal drive to save some family pictures and anything else I can get. I have tried DiskWarrior and it can't repair the disk and just tells me to backup ASAP. I also tried SuperDuper! To clone the drive but after 6 hours and still over 100000+ files to verify and not even start copying I have up on it. I figure I can transfer just the photos faster rather than the whole drive like SuperDuper! Does.
So I am currently transferring my photos going directly from my iMac to MBP with a cat5. I would like to use my Firewire 800 cable but for some reason I can't get the target computer to show up on the host?
Bad HD is in my iMac and I am trying to transfer the files to MBP. I have at least 30gb of data that I need transferred and about another 200gb if possible.
My iMac originally had Snow Leopard on it and my MBP has Leopard on it. However I am currently running just Leopard on both machines right now because of using my external hd to run my iMac. If need be I can put snow leopard back on my iMac but my MBP is to old to put snow leopard on it. It is a 2008 MBP intel core2.
I have tried everything I could find but unable to get the target to show on either machine. I tried using both machines as target/host with not luck.
Couldn't bad hd be causing problems that I can't use the FireWire 800?
Is there anyway to connect the FireWire using terminal or not using target mode?
Please help as I have been dealing with this for a week now and every time I think I get a solution it doesn't work. As soon as I get the data recovered I will be taking the iMac in and the HD will be replaced due to a recall.
Thanks and sorry for such a long post.
Tom
So to get to my problem: I want to get some data off of my internal drive to save some family pictures and anything else I can get. I have tried DiskWarrior and it can't repair the disk and just tells me to backup ASAP. I also tried SuperDuper! To clone the drive but after 6 hours and still over 100000+ files to verify and not even start copying I have up on it. I figure I can transfer just the photos faster rather than the whole drive like SuperDuper! Does.
So I am currently transferring my photos going directly from my iMac to MBP with a cat5. I would like to use my Firewire 800 cable but for some reason I can't get the target computer to show up on the host?
Bad HD is in my iMac and I am trying to transfer the files to MBP. I have at least 30gb of data that I need transferred and about another 200gb if possible.
My iMac originally had Snow Leopard on it and my MBP has Leopard on it. However I am currently running just Leopard on both machines right now because of using my external hd to run my iMac. If need be I can put snow leopard back on my iMac but my MBP is to old to put snow leopard on it. It is a 2008 MBP intel core2.
I have tried everything I could find but unable to get the target to show on either machine. I tried using both machines as target/host with not luck.
Couldn't bad hd be causing problems that I can't use the FireWire 800?
Is there anyway to connect the FireWire using terminal or not using target mode?
Please help as I have been dealing with this for a week now and every time I think I get a solution it doesn't work. As soon as I get the data recovered I will be taking the iMac in and the HD will be replaced due to a recall.
Thanks and sorry for such a long post.
Tom
