so my sister has a mac laptop, and the hinges broke....

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....and now the screen is inoperable.

Question: is it possible to access this with another laptop as if it were a second hard drive, and get all the data off?

Second question: if the above is possible, does the retrieving laptop have to also be a mac, or can it be a pc?

Thanks in advance.

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1. How to use FireWire target disk mode

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

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2. Another option: pull the drive out of the laptop, slap it into an enclosure, and connect it as

an external harddrive to another machine. The drive may not be hard to remove, based on the many change-your-drive instructions available

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&num=50&q=change+drive+mac+notebook&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=nAr5SZDwNcqimQez1aCZDg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#