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Fun Job Today: Firewire Target Disk Mode


#1 User is offline   shanenin 

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Posted 07 October 2009 - 02:45 PM

We got a g4 imac in our repair shop that needed a reload. The problem was it had a bad optical drive. If we had a firewire optical drive around, that would have worked, but we did not. I did have a mac mini at home, using firewire target disk mode, we turned my mac mini into an external firewire drive. It worked really nice. its loading the os as I type.

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Posted 07 October 2009 - 08:22 PM

I've done the same thing once installing the os on a powerbook from a G4 tower.

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 04:26 AM

View Postshanenin, on 07 October 2009 - 02:45 PM, said:

We got a g4 imac in our repair shop that needed a reload. The problem was it had a bad optical drive. If we had a firewire optical drive around, that would have worked, but we did not. I did have a mac mini at home, using firewire target disk mode, we turned my mac mini into an external firewire drive. It worked really nice. its loading the os as I type.


good work

the computer shop here has a Imac in the display with a sign saying do not by a Mac it would Cost $800 to replace the hard drive. I am sure that is what the apple store said it would cost.. but dell says the same thing..

But what is worse the guy told me it was so expensive because Mac created their own disk drives.. This is why I buy more and more stuff on line.. most of the "computer" guys have no clue.. glad to see there are people who still care..

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 08:22 AM

Awesome work, shanenin! You provide excellent service for your clients. :thumbsup:

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 09:33 AM

On the intel Macs you can install from another Mac or PCs optical drive wirelessly.
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