Windows to iBook Firewire Transfer
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symphonix
Scratch & Sniff Committee
You can start up your Mac in a "Firewire target disk mode" which tells your mac not to actually boot, but instead to pretend to be a firewire hard drive.
To do this, you do the following:
- Connect up the firewire cable, as you've described.
- Switch on the Mac while holding the 'T' button.
- Your Mac's hard drive will appear as a mountable drive on the windows machine. (provided it knows how to access a firewire hard drive, that is).
For more detailed instructions, check AppleCare document 58583 (just type the number into Sherlock's search field in the AppleCare channel).
To do this, you do the following:
- Connect up the firewire cable, as you've described.
- Switch on the Mac while holding the 'T' button.
- Your Mac's hard drive will appear as a mountable drive on the windows machine. (provided it knows how to access a firewire hard drive, that is).
For more detailed instructions, check AppleCare document 58583 (just type the number into Sherlock's search field in the AppleCare channel).
symphonix
Scratch & Sniff Committee
*update* It occurs to me though that Windows will not recognise a Mac formatted disk, so you might want to try a program like MacDrive to allow Windows to read the disk.
By far the easiest solution for transferring files between your Mac and your PC would be to use a network connection. A simple (and cheap) crossover cable would let you do the transfer of files both ways without having to take either system offline, and would be less hassle than a firewire connection.
By far the easiest solution for transferring files between your Mac and your PC would be to use a network connection. A simple (and cheap) crossover cable would let you do the transfer of files both ways without having to take either system offline, and would be less hassle than a firewire connection.
MightyAtom
Sock Puppet
You could also network the two over the FireWire cable.
You would need to download and install the Apple IP over FireWire Preview Release v1.1 from Apple's developer site - requires free registration - note some have said v1.1 is a bit buggy.
You could then network just like using a cross-over cable. Most versions of Windows support IP over FireWire natively, so it should be straight forward from the other end.
A Robinson
Registered
How about just pulling the PC hard drive and putting it in an external FW case?
brianleahy
Colonel Panic
However, correct me if I'm wrong, but if both Mac & PC have Gigabit Ethernet, that'd be faster than firewire, eh?
brianleahy
Colonel Panic
My own personal experience: My 1st-generation iPod tries to mount on a FW equipped WinXP machine, but Windows says the drive is not formatted, and would I like to format it? Eeep!!
brianleahy
Colonel Panic
Definitely. Boot one in "target mode" - hold down "T" during boot up. The display will show the firewire symbol. Then connect em with an ordinary FW cable, and it'll mount as a drive.
Very old Macs may not do it -- for instance, at least some old Blue/White G3 towers won't.
Very old Macs may not do it -- for instance, at least some old Blue/White G3 towers won't.
Randman
HA! HA! HA!
If you have file sharing, you don't need to reboot in target mode. I can connect my two iBooks via network cord (the orange ones) by opening File Share and turning it on and hitting Apple K for network connect.
And if they both have an Airport card, you can set them up in a wireless network. You can't access the Internet that way but you can get good speeds. I can transfer files faster that way then via cord.
And if they both have an Airport card, you can set them up in a wireless network. You can't access the Internet that way but you can get good speeds. I can transfer files faster that way then via cord.