[themexican]

Here's the situation:

I have a powerbook with serious hard disk problems. It won't boot and even firewire mode is problematic (I believe the drive has physical problems), but I can boot into single user mode and browse my data files in my user folder. These are the files I care about and want to copy to another computer.

I have another Mac here.

I have a USB thumb drive.

I have firewire cables, ethernet etc.

Is there any way to copy files from single user mode either onto the USB drive or onto the other Mac via a network.

A step by step idiot's guide would be helpful.

[Big Mac]

Could you possibly boot into target disk mode instead of single user mode? If you could accomplish that things would be infinitely simpler.