None of my friends use OSX, and I'm too impatient to wait till tomorrow (where I'm sure the guys at my work will know), so I'm asking the question here. I want to connect a firewire cable from my powerbook to my XP desktop and use the PB as an external harddrive. I thought I remembered reading something about pressing some button when the PB is booting up to put it into external hard drive mode. Is this possible or am I cah-razy?
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Okay that worked (the firewire logo is on the PB screen) but XP still doesnt recognize the device. Do I need special drivers?
Oh... I was going for crazy with extra emphasis on the nutso part. But I don't know nuttin like that about computers.
-blade
Hey Taylor, I'm no Mac wiz; I've also had a similar question and found this site to be useful: http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/~tech/Support/MacOS9/targetdiskmode.html.
Have you tried restarting your PC?
It's because XP can't read Mac disks... but Mac can read Windows disks... so if there's a way of doing it the other way around?
09:58 PM on 06.30.04
Hold down the T key while booting up to boot into Firewire target disk mode.