How do I acces the hard drive on my Macbook air as a target with out firewire

My Macbook air boots to a blue screen. Can I connect to another Mac via USB or etherent to access the hard drive? I did a disk repair through the disk utility but that did not solve the start up issue.

Clone it using Carbon Copy Cloner.  Here's the link:
http://www.bombich.com/
Then to move it to the MBair and boot the Air holding down the Option key between the startup tone and the Logo / pinwheel.
The boot manager will start and then select the external drive as the boot device.
First some qualifying questions:
1. What OSx release is on your other Mac.
2. What MBair do you have. 
I want to make sure the OS you're going to clone is more recent then the OSx that your MBair originally shipped with.

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