connecting one computer to another using target disk mode

If you don't have another Mac, then it would be best to use the exFAT file system on the USB drive so Windows can read it. If you are familiar with the command line, then you may be able to boot the Mac into Recovery Mode or Internet Recovery Mode to transfer your files to an external USB drive. There may be third party drivers that can be installed on Windows to do this (Paragon I believe supplies a third party driver, but I've heard their drivers may cause issues with the OS). The imaging process will take 15-30 minutes.Technically it will work with any PC if the PC has the proper ports, but Windows isn't able to read the macOS drives/file systems. You will be asked for the admin username and password. Make sure that there are checkmarks next to “Erase Destination” and “Skip Checksum” (if they are there and available) and click on the “Restore” button.The new yellow icon is usually named Macintosh HD and is not to be confused with the grey Macintosh HD icon which may represent the disk of the “spare” Mac. In the Disk Utility window drag the hard disk of the Mac that needs to be imaged (the yellow icon) to the “Destination” field.In the field named “Source” click on the “Image” button and select the image.When you click on the “Restore” tab, the middle of the window will have a field where you can choose the image.In Disk Utility click on any of the disks listed there and then click on the “Restore” tab.

When you can see the firewire logo, the hard disk of the Mac that needs to be imaged will appear on the Desktop of the “spare” Mac and in the Disk Utility window.

Continue holding down this letter until you see the firewire logo on the screen of the Mac that needs to be imaged.

Press the power button on the Mac that needs to be imaged and immediately press and hold the letter “T” on the keyboard of the Mac that needs to be imaged.

Connect the Mac that needs to be imaged to a power outlet.

Use a firewire cable to connect firewire port of the Mac that needs to be imaged to the firewire port of the “spare” Mac.

In the Utilities window double click on “Disk Utility”.

From the “Go” menu at the very top select “Utilities”. The distribution team can help you copy this image onto the spare Mac. the image (resides on the mac server called bigcat).another Mac that has a working operating system (a.k.a.

Connecting one computer to another using target disk mode