New macbook broke old Ibook when transfering files

Hi There I hope someone can help. Bought macbook and connected the firewire cable and did the target disk mode to transfer files and everything was transfering fine and then I got the "Your macbook needs to be restarted" kernal message and so I restarted and tried again only the old Ibook would no longer show up in target disk and will not start up at all now. All I get is the folder and question mark. Ran disk first aid and tech tool pro and it said can't repair the disk. Is there anything that anyone knows that ca help. I don't want to lose all mt old files from my Ibook!! Help Please if you can.
Marilyn

+Ran disk first aid and tech tool pro and it said can't repair the disk.+
Were these run from the install CD/DVD?
You might try booting your ibook while holding the 'Option' key down - this might give you your usual HD to start up from. Make sure the firewire cable is no longer connected.

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attached storage etc. do bugs get forwarded from these forums? below i can outline the consistent and repeatable nature not only on my pc but on others' pcs as well (2012 forum post i found).
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pc amount, but after transfer this is ony 58mb)
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"Free" will drop as far as 35-50megabytes over time.
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The reply on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:04 AM has before and after pictures of exactly what i described in
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wheres the extra gb's coming from? likely the same culprit of what filled up "standby" memory for me and others. it looks like this patch relative to this problem merely recategorizes the bloat - just changes the title it falls under.
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https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/955b600f-976d-4c09-86dc-2ff19e726baf/memory-leak-in-windows-7-64bit-when-writing-to-a-network-shared-disk?forum=w7itpronetworking

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