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Can I target boot from a macbook pro running lion to an imac with snowleopard

I have an iMac with snowleopard and the hard drive appears to have crashed. I have transfered all the files I had backed up on timemachine (on an external drive) onto our new macbook pro, but there were some files that were excluded form the backups. Is it possible to target boot the old drive using firewire between the new (working) macbook pro with Lion and the old iMac with Snowleopard?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Apr 23, 2012 3:50 PM

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Posted on Apr 23, 2012 4:10 PM

It should be possible, but if like you said your hard drive as crashed, it will not work any better in target mode.

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Can I target boot from a macbook pro running lion to an imac with snowleopard

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