Bad analog assembly - can I transfer Hard drive to my macbookpro?

My emac has a bad analog assembly. I've already had it repaired once when under the apple care plan. The care plan expired and I don't want to have it repaired again. I have a macbook pro and need to get some infor off of the emac's hard drive. Is that possible? I tried the firewire and commandT and nothing happened.

I thought I could connect the emac to my laptop by firewire, turn on the emac and press command T.
If the eMac was working, that would be possible. But if the logic board is damaged or not getting power, then it won't work. The eMac must be working enough for the basic parts of the logic board and drive channel to function. Whether this is the case with your system, I can't say.
You're saying I need to take the hard drive out of the emac, place it in a firewire case, then use the command T?
If you put the drive in a Firewire case, then you just connect it to the MacBook and it should mount; no key commands should be necessary. If you can't get Firewire Target Disk Mode to work on the eMac, then removing the drive and mounting it on the MacBook is your only option. If you don't plan to keep using the drive, then using a connector such as NewerTech's Universal Drive Adapter would work (presuming the drive is good) and be cheaper than a full case. But if the drive is of reasonable size, you can put it in a Firewire case and then use it as backup or portable storage.
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