Cant get out of target disk mode?? Really need help

[macnewbie1234]

So, my screen is currently showing a bouncing lightening bolt inside of a circle, as well as a battery at the bottom of the screen. Its a gray screen. I believe I may have pressed the T key and entered target disk mode. I should note that I'm not connected to any other computer. Anyway, I tried to hold down the power button, I tried pressing control-option-command-power, command-option-escape, command-option-p-r. Nothing is working.

The battery is almost dead. Should I just wait for the computer to die, plug it in and restart? How else can I get out of here..

Thanks for the help

 

[honestone]

First, how are you making posts here? Can you actually use your Mac that is in Target Disk Mode?

Next, this link talks about Target Disk Mode:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462

Given that you are not connected to any other machine, not sure how you could be in Target Disk Mode just by pressing down the T key. Even if that were possible, one would think that can only happen at start up, ie, holding down the T key while your Mac is starting up.

Here is a link that shows keyboard short cuts:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

Maybe try some of the ones where it says "Sleep, log out, and shut down shortcuts".

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

Try rebooting & when you hear the startup chime hold down Opt key, this will show you a boot screen with all bootable devices listed. You can use the mouse or the keyboard to select a device to boot into.

 

[Kaleenthusiast]

So, my screen is currently showing a bouncing lightening bolt inside of a circle, as well as a battery at the bottom of the screen. Its a gray screen. I believe I may have pressed the T key and entered target disk mode. I should note that I'm not connected to any other computer. Anyway, I tried to hold down the power button, I tried pressing control-option-command-power, command-option-escape, command-option-p-r. Nothing is working.

The battery is almost dead. Should I just wait for the computer to die, plug it in and restart? How else can I get out of here..

Thanks for the help

Did you figure it out?

 

[Destiny323]

What’d You Do To Get It Out Of Target Disk Mode? Did Battery Death Work??

 

[Malamuse]

Try rebooting & when you hear the startup chime hold down Opt key, this will show you a boot screen with all bootable devices listed. You can use the mouse or the keyboard to select a device to boot into.

I had the same problem with also no idea of how I ended up in target disk mode. Thank you so much, holding down tge Opt key while rebooting wored!!!

 

[Malamuse]

Try rebooting & when you hear the startup chime hold down Opt key, this will show you a boot screen with all bootable devices listed. You can use the mouse or the keyboard to select a device to boot into.

I had the same problem with also no idea of how I ended up in target disk mode. Thank you so much, holding down the Opt key while rebooting worked!!! Thanks!

Try rebooting & when you hear the startup chime hold down Opt key, this will show you a boot screen with all bootable devices listed. You can use the mouse or the keyboard to select a device to boot into.

 

[Grammar_Ash]

None of these solutions helped, I have the same kind of screen on my Mac, but my battery is fully charged so it will take a while... The main issue that's keeping me from being able to use any of these solutions here is that my MacBook pro has the touch bar instead of function keys and a power button. And it's not lit up, and touching the place on the bar where the power button would be doesn't work... The only other Mac that I have that I could try to use in target disk mode is a older MacBook pro that doesn't have the same USB-C lightning port, it has the old lightning port. So I don't even know if this would work. I have a new lightning cord adapter that has a USB, HDMI, and lightning port in it, so I'm wondering if I could somehow use that adapter on the new laptop that's in target disc mode, add either a USB cord or an HDMI cord and attach it to my old macbook, but I don't really think that will work. I was trying to see if Target disc mode would allow me to view the Boot Camp partition of my disk, as I am about to uninstall it and reinstall it with a larger GB partition size, as well as try to update the graphics card drivers, in an attempt to get a new update of my favorite video game to work, and I didn't look into what target disk mode did before trying it out, and now I'm stuck.