Booting from another mac using late 2009 13" macbook?

can this be done? apple made it INCREDIBLY hard to do anything regarding file sharing or alternative booting on this macbook by not having a firewire port and not having target disk mode. i honestly dont know what they were thinking, however, is there a way to boot from another mac (that does have firewire and target disk mode) on the new one?

Target Disk Mode only works via Firewire. About the only option you have is to remove the hard drive from the other Mac and put it into a USB enclosure, then use it for booting. Do keep in mind that this could cause issues as that other hard drive won't necessarily have the correct drivers.
If you wanted to use a different part of the computer, such as the optical drive, you probably need to get an external drive.
~Lyssa

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Dear Allan, Very interesting solutions to a stuck disk. I'm going to keep it for future.
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hi there,
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windows 7 32bit or 64 bit?
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Although I have the "Early" 2009 mini, I believe they're close enough.
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