Water Damage, Recover Data from SSD?
Please Help! I killed my husbands macbook air. I spilled an entire glass of water over it and while he told me not to touch it for several days while it was drying out, I could not help myself. I tried to power it up a bunch.
Needless to say, it has never powered back up and Apple Genius Bar said they can just replace it for a chunck of change, but they will absolutely not do any data recovery.
My questions is....if I can get the SSD flash drive out of it ( I have located the tools on this site to order), can someone PLEASE tell me how to get the data off of it. It holds all of our honeymoon photos which I greatly desire to save, but cannot afford a data recovery service that was suggested by Apple.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank You
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@danj I also had an accident involving water and now your coment gives me some hope.
But I don't understand the second part of it. A OWC case seems to transform the ssd into a external drive. So why do I need to put it into a friends macbook to save my data?
by johanneshoerteis
Ah! It's all about the time frame when I wrote this.
OWC didn't have the needed case out yet (it does now) so the only way with the newest model was to swap the SSD's between a working system (the exact same model) to gain access to the files.
Today we don't need to do this as OWC has the needed case to hold the SSD so after placing the SSD from the dead system into the case you'll have no problem plugging it into any Mac system to gain access to the files.
by Dan