Connecting two Macs

When you want to clone your hard drive to another Mac, the destination Mac must be connected in target disk mode.

To connect the destination Mac to the source one:

1. Turn on both the source and destination Macs.
2. Connect them by using a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable.
3. On the destination Mac, click Apple menu > System Preferences, click Startup Disk, and then click Target Disk Mode.

   Once the computer is restarted, a new disk icon appears on the desktop of the source Mac. Since that moment you can work with the hard drive of the destination Mac as an ordinary external drive, including selecting it as a destination drive for the cloning operation.

4. When the cloning operation is complete, eject the destination drive by dragging its icon to the Trash.
5. Turn off the destination Mac, and then disconnect the cable.