<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>You can boot from an external USB drive and image that way. Sadly you will need to replace your Firewire only drives, or at least the cases. The Target Disk mode issue will be when you need to mount a Macbook as a drive on another Mac. Not sure if that works over USB, in fact I'm pretty sure you can't.<div><br></div><div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; 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We boot off a system on the external drive and clone a system<br>to the new computer, very quick.<br><br>Does this mean that all our external Firewire drives (no USB ports) will<br>just sit on the shelves to gather dust. Is there a third party USB to<br>Firewire adapter we can use.<br><br>--<br>David Wikeley<br>IT Manager<br>Faculty of Health Science<br>University of Tasmania<br>43 Collins Street<br>Hobart, Tasmania.<br>T: 03 62264751<br>W: <a href="http://www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/">www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>unimactech mailing list<br><a href="mailto:unimactech@auc.edu.au">unimactech@auc.edu.au</a><br>http://www.auc.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/unimactech<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>