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OS X: Turn Your Mac into a HD

Friday, September 5th, 2008 – running time 01:28
Turn your Mac into an external drive with the press of a button. Whether OS X is dying or you're just transferring data to a new machine this tip will you time and money.

Highlights
hard drive ( 0:19, 0:34, 1:00, 0:19, 0:34, 1:00 ) OS-X ( 0:12, 0:22, 0:47, 1:04, 0:12, 0:22, 0:47, 1:04 ) Tekzilla ( 1:18, 1:18 ) MacBook Air ( 0:32, 0:32 ) hard drive ( 0:19, 0:34, 1:00, 0:19, 0:34, 1:00 ) OS-X ( 0:12, 0:22, 0:47, 1:04, 0:12, 0:22, 0:47, 1:04 ) Tekzilla ( 1:18, 1:18 ) MacBook Air ( 0:32, 0:32 )

Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )

" War. Well detects that would -- Patrick Norton. Catastrophic crash of OS-X -- never see your files again stop the years we've got a -- just might save your data. Now it's not gonna work if your hard drive is dead that if your Mac takes cylinder pieces to boot into OS-X there's still hope at least if you have access to a second machine and a firewire cable. It's called target disk mode and pretty much turn your back into a giant external or in the case of a MacBook Air a little tiny external hard drive you can access from another computer. And it's pretty easy to set out first. Turn the -- back off second link to machines that the firewire cable now. Hold down the Tiki when you start that ailing machine. This'll bypass OS-X which -- machine to target disk mode. And then he can read files off and like any other external drive that remember if you're gonna do this from the PC you're gonna need an H if that's translation software like Mac drive seven. Otherwise it's just not gonna recognize hard drive. We can use the Mac you're good the next time we suspect it probably OS-X and you fear for your data -- to rescue it -- completely aren't gonna you know we're waiting it's -- Maxtor storage quick we have got you covered. In particular send our way -- email particulate emission green dot com. Remember Tekzilla dot com it can be placed find more tips tricks product reviews and how to."

" War. Well detects that would -- Patrick Norton. Catastrophic crash of OS-X -- never see your files again stop the years we've got a -- just might save your data. Now it's not gonna work if your hard drive is dead that if your Mac takes cylinder pieces to boot into OS-X there's still hope at least if you have access to a second machine and a firewire cable. It's called target disk mode and pretty much turn your back into a giant external or in the case of a MacBook Air a little tiny external hard drive you can access from another computer. And it's pretty easy to set out first. Turn the -- back off second link to machines that the firewire cable now. Hold down the Tiki when you start that ailing machine. This'll bypass OS-X which -- machine to target disk mode. And then he can read files off and like any other external drive that remember if you're gonna do this from the PC you're gonna need an H if that's translation software like Mac drive seven. Otherwise it's just not gonna recognize hard drive. We can use the Mac you're good the next time we suspect it probably OS-X and you fear for your data -- to rescue it -- completely aren't gonna you know we're waiting it's -- Maxtor storage quick we have got you covered. In particular send our way -- email particulate emission green dot com. Remember Tekzilla dot com it can be placed find more tips tricks product reviews and how to."