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I Don't Understand Target Disk Mode or Migration Assistant
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<blockquote data-quote="TDRock" data-source="post: 230961" data-attributes="member: 13662"><p>OK... Thanks for the reply.</p><p></p><p>I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I feel like i've tried what's been said, and I can't find any support info from Apple that would figure out a way for me to do it <strong><em>differently</em></strong>. I don't know if I should be starting from my Mini and trying to get my Sawtooth to mount or vice-versa. Either way, I haven't been able to do it. I mean... as far as I know I can only start up/do this on one machine or another at a time. Whatever I do the entire screen turns blue with the bouncing firewire icon and then that's it, nothing else happens. And I've tried waiting as long as an hour for another screen to appear or anything and nothing does whether I tried to get the Sawtooth to mount to the Mini or vice versa. I've got 30G of data to get off the Sawtooth and onto the Mini and I have no idea what to do.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>How do I do that? Seriously. I am so confused... OK, I should state here that I only have one monitor. Is that what's messing me up? 'Cause I can only see what's happening on whatever computer I start from since - as we all know - the mini does not come with a Monitor. So that said, yes, I'll start the Mini with the Sawtooth off. I go under System Preferences and press the Target Disk Mode button and when it restarts it comes back up with the firewire icon. I've tried</p><p></p><p>* Starting TDM with the Sawtooth off but the firewire cable connected.</p><p></p><p>* Starting TDM with the Sawtooth ON and the firewire cable connected.</p><p></p><p>* Starting TDM with the Sawtooth off AND the no firewire cable connected (and then I put the cable in and start the Sawtooth hoping the Mini will "see" it at that point)</p><p></p><p>and I've done all the same starting with the Sawtooth and trying to get it to see the Mini.</p><p></p><p>So far, so nothing. Entire afternoon/evening and now night spent trying.</p><p></p><p>So anymore help or ideas of what I could do <strong><em>differently</em></strong> from what I've been doing would be greatly appreciated.</p><p></p><p>- Tania</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TDRock, post: 230961, member: 13662"] OK... Thanks for the reply. I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I feel like i've tried what's been said, and I can't find any support info from Apple that would figure out a way for me to do it [b][i]differently[/i][/b]. I don't know if I should be starting from my Mini and trying to get my Sawtooth to mount or vice-versa. Either way, I haven't been able to do it. I mean... as far as I know I can only start up/do this on one machine or another at a time. Whatever I do the entire screen turns blue with the bouncing firewire icon and then that's it, nothing else happens. And I've tried waiting as long as an hour for another screen to appear or anything and nothing does whether I tried to get the Sawtooth to mount to the Mini or vice versa. I've got 30G of data to get off the Sawtooth and onto the Mini and I have no idea what to do. How do I do that? Seriously. I am so confused... OK, I should state here that I only have one monitor. Is that what's messing me up? 'Cause I can only see what's happening on whatever computer I start from since - as we all know - the mini does not come with a Monitor. So that said, yes, I'll start the Mini with the Sawtooth off. I go under System Preferences and press the Target Disk Mode button and when it restarts it comes back up with the firewire icon. I've tried * Starting TDM with the Sawtooth off but the firewire cable connected. * Starting TDM with the Sawtooth ON and the firewire cable connected. * Starting TDM with the Sawtooth off AND the no firewire cable connected (and then I put the cable in and start the Sawtooth hoping the Mini will "see" it at that point) and I've done all the same starting with the Sawtooth and trying to get it to see the Mini. So far, so nothing. Entire afternoon/evening and now night spent trying. So anymore help or ideas of what I could do [b][i]differently[/i][/b] from what I've been doing would be greatly appreciated. - Tania [/QUOTE]
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