Link 2 macbook pros

I have an older macbook pro and a newer one. The newer one will not start up and show the drive. Keeps coming up
with the screen for disk utility and wanting to restore the drive but that does nothing.
Can I hook them together by ethernet or usb and see the one on the other machine and maybe can get
files off?
Can anyone tell me how?

Target disk mode, maybe -> http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10725?
Clinton

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I heavily use iTunes (190 GB), iPhoto (120 GB) and iMovie (30 GB, but want to do more when I get time). Additionally, I store lots of old videos on circa 10 portable hard drives (1 TB each), which I access occasionally.
The family use all this content and we currently have a MacBook Pro and are considering buying a new computer - either a new MacBook Pro or an iMac. We also have iPads, iPhones etc and a Time Capsule.
[…] We want all our music and pictures in single master libraries that we can all access and update.
The "update" portion of this is where your problems will arise. You'd be better to consider your proposed system initially in terms of content "consumption", before getting into the nitty-gritty of editing shared content.
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1) Kingston DT101G2 32Gb Memory stick -> Product Link
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Ok, so after reading the responce from Jaygyver I made some progress, but let me first explain my hardware and the process I used to get everything working.
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1) Kingston DT101G2 32Gb Memory stick -> Product Link
2) Macbook Pro 15-inch (Early 2011) - 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 1024 MB VRAM, Thunderbolt Firmware version 22,1
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8) In "Spotlight" type "Boot Camp"
9) Run the Boot Camp Assistant application
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Careful here:
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You need this link to recover your data
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Step by Step to fix your Mac
- Disconnect peripheral devices - All disconnected, still the same
check
- Safe Mode - It starts the same then it turns off by itself
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- Reset the NVRAM / PRAM - Computer restarted with the gong and a white screen and apple logo, but it was stuck there forever (after this step I didnt see the grey screen again, instead it started showing the white screen every time I turned the Macbook on)
PRAM holds the splash gray screen image, white screen is the same thing basically without the gray screen
- Disk Utility - Tried to repair the HD but it couldnt.
Did you try the Macintosh HD partition?, that's where your problem is
- Reinstall OS X - Once I get to the screen where it tells me to choose an HD I cant continue because it doesnt show any HD to choose.
Should be Macintosh HD partiton, since to use Disk Utiity your command r booted from the Recovery HD partition
Since you were able to boot into Recovery HD to use Disk Utility, that means the drive is working that just OS X on the Macintosh HD partition isn't booting.
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