I recently had a hard drive fail in my old MacBook (OS X 10.6); however, I have external drive that is cloned (and bootable), and that's what I was counting on to bring over my user info, data, settings etc.
I borrowed a family member's MackBook Pro to boot from my cloned external drive, and I was planning on using Setup Assistant instead of Migration Assistant (as I had a user name conflict with Migration Assistant). Setup Assistant wants me to use target disk mode but I don't know if I can do this using my external drive because it has to be rebooted. The problem is that in order to boot from my external drive using the borrowed Mac, I'd have to hold down the option key, and to boot up with TDM I have to restart and boot holding down the "T" key.
Is there a key combination that would allow me to boot from the external drive using TDM?
I borrowed a family member's MackBook Pro to boot from my cloned external drive, and I was planning on using Setup Assistant instead of Migration Assistant (as I had a user name conflict with Migration Assistant). Setup Assistant wants me to use target disk mode but I don't know if I can do this using my external drive because it has to be rebooted. The problem is that in order to boot from my external drive using the borrowed Mac, I'd have to hold down the option key, and to boot up with TDM I have to restart and boot holding down the "T" key.
Is there a key combination that would allow me to boot from the external drive using TDM?