I am no techy and have just been doing some research. My 2017 MBP will login very slowly and then freeze on my past screens once in there - never fully booting/cannot click anything. I ran recovery mode etc and no luck. The battery is pretty dead so used it as an excuse to go out and buy the new M1 MBP.
I am foolish and did not do a time machine back-up, my files aren't super important but if I could get them back without paying someone hundreds it would be nice.
I have read about target disk mode, but as both the machines are updated to big sur, Apple says I need a thunderbolt cable. I am happy to go out and buy one if there is a reasonable chance of being able to recover most/some files. The old macbook that won't boot properly easily goes into target disk mode, and I tried to connect the two computers using a usb-c cable but I assume no dice with this.
Does anyone know if this is likely to work and if it is automatic once I connect them to each other with a thunderbolt cable? Or do I need to go into a certain setting on the functioning macbook to see if it is working?
Hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance. 😊
I am foolish and did not do a time machine back-up, my files aren't super important but if I could get them back without paying someone hundreds it would be nice.
I have read about target disk mode, but as both the machines are updated to big sur, Apple says I need a thunderbolt cable. I am happy to go out and buy one if there is a reasonable chance of being able to recover most/some files. The old macbook that won't boot properly easily goes into target disk mode, and I tried to connect the two computers using a usb-c cable but I assume no dice with this.
Does anyone know if this is likely to work and if it is automatic once I connect them to each other with a thunderbolt cable? Or do I need to go into a certain setting on the functioning macbook to see if it is working?
Hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance. 😊
