 |
 |
Target DIsk Mode with a blank HD
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Vancouver, BC
Status:
Offline
|
|
I'm about to install a new HD in my Powerbook. For various reasons, I want to use my Powerbook in target disk mode to clone data to the new drive.
Once the new drive is installed and I want to clone data to it, will I be able to put the blank HD in target disk mode without OS X installed? Or will I have to install OS X before I can put the new disk in Target Disk Mode?
If OS X is installed, and I overwrite it with cloned data, will that disrupt the target disk mode?
Of course all of this could be avoided if anyone knew where I could find a 2.5" firewire ATA-100 external enclosure. But that's for another forum.
Thanks!
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Target Disk Mode is a function of the firmware, so that should work.
|
|
Chuck
___
"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Land of Enchantment
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Vancouver, BC
Status:
Offline
|
|
Thanks Chuck, I'll give it a shot.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
If you're using Leopard, you can let Time Machine back up your drive, pop the new hard drive into your PowerBook, boot off the Leopard DVD, and then do a full restore of the latest backup onto your new, blank drive.
That's exactly what I did when I upgraded the hard drive in my MacBook Pro.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Los Angeles, CA.
Status:
Offline
|
|
I thought starting up a machine in target disk mode requires a pre-existing OS X installed on the HD?
Can you target disk mode an NTFS partition that's stuck into a Mac?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: New York, NY
Status:
Offline
|
|
No, TDM is a function of the firmware. The disk can be blank or even non-existent. Obviously, if the disk is gone, nothing will appear on the other Mac but the target Mac will still enter TDM.
It also doesn't matter what format the the disk is either. Obviously, you'll only be able to read an NTFS partition on the other Mac unless you have 3rd party software.
|
|
Vandelay Industries
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
Target Disk Mode turns your entire Mac into a Firewire "enclosure". The hard disk inside your Mac is then read from/written to as a raw block device, so it is at the mercy and control of the OS mounting it (whatever you plug your Mac into).
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top