

Make sure the cable fits the FireWire connector on the Mac since there are different shape connectors for FireWire standards. Many laptops have PCMCIA or ExpressCard/34 slots that allow the insertion of a FireWire card. You must purchase an adapter if there is no FireWire port on the Windows host computer. Target disk mode requires the host computer (systems accessing the Mac) to connect via a FireWire port (or Thunderbolt with newer Macs) to the target Mac.

Therefore, target disk mode allows forensic examiners to access the internal Mac drive as an external hard drive from another Mac or a Windows PC.
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Removing hard drives instead from a Mac computer can be time-consuming and damage the system when not performed properly. Booting an Apple Macintosh in target disk mode allows computer forensic examiners to copy relevant files from the internal drive on a Mac computer.
