Starting up using another computer as a startup disk.

Hello oh knowledgeable ones. My hard drive is MIA (flashing question mark folder) and I would like to use my old iMac as a startup disk (via firewire) (I have tried starting up off of CD and I am never able to get the machine started up so I can run a disk utility.) When we had a similar problem 2 weeks ago we took the beast to the genius bar and they got it started up off a firewire start-up - but I cannot startup off of my old mac.

Hi CGov-
This may help: How to use FireWire target disk mode
Luck-
-DP

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