HDD Scan on Mac Air

[KG2002]

Guys, is there a way to run Drive Genius on Mac Air? The MA is getting slower by the day and I saw the same symptoms right before my iMac's HDD crashed. I want to run a HDD scan but Drive Genius requires that I scan a non boot drive. Since Target mode is not an option, I am out of ideas.

P.S. Yes, I have another Mac available.

 

[ayeying]

Do you have external hard drive? You can boot off of an external hard drive then scan the internal one.

 

[KG2002]

Do you have external hard drive? You can boot off of an external hard drive then scan the internal one.

Can I use another Mac Laptop as a bootable external drive then?

 

[gavin83209]

As far as I know, only over Firewire. You need a USB boot drive.

 

[LinMac]

You can just burn a CD/DVD to boot from. I don't remember how, but I know it can be done because I carry one with me.