

If you are using newer Macs with Thunderbolt ports, you can also use a Thunderbolt crossover cable to conduct the file transfer. Cables like this can be readily found online or at your local electronics retail store. If one computer has FireWire 400 and the other has 800, you will need a FireWire 400-to-800 crossover cable. This crossover cable has two male FireWire connectors available in the flavor your machines accept (either FireWire 400 or 800). You may have a FireWire crossover cable lying around if you have an external FireWire hard drive or other FireWire peripheral.Ĭonnect the computer you will be transferring files from (the host) to another Mac (the recipient) using a FireWire crossover cable. > FireWire or Thunderbolt Crossover Cables 1. > Two Macs with FireWire or Thunderbolt Ports Using this mode, you can connect your misbehaving Mac to another Mac and use it as an external hard drive, allowing you to retrieve your files and stow them at an alternative location. To do this, we’ll use a little-known boot utility called Target Disk Mode. Format the volumes to NTFS.Occasionally your Mac may refuse to boot due to any number of problems however, you can still get to your important files so long as your hard drive is still intact. Create one or more partitions on the new disk and assign a drive letters and labels to them.

To do it, select Online, and then Initialize Disk in the context menu of the new disk in the Disk Management console. Then initialize the iSCSI disk, which is initially in the Offline state. To enable it, click Connect -> Advanced, select the values you want in the dropdown lists, check Enable CHAP log on and enter the user name and the 12-character password. Then go to the Targets tab and you will see a new connection there. To connect to the iSCSI storage, open TCP ports 8 in Windows Firewall.
