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Hey everyone! I want to retrieve my files from my macbook pro that is not functional anymore due to water damage. I have the Apple SSD (see pictures) but I m not sure if there is an adaptor available to transfer the data to a computer. I heard a lot of stuff from being impossible because of encryption, Finding adaptor is impossible, 600 euro to recover! I really dont know what to believe and what to try. Any ideas?? Thank you!
So far no one has offered the needed adapter to allow you to connect your SSD drive into. The only option is finding a second 2016/17 13” Fn MacBook Pro to slide your SSD into so you can recover the files. As far as encryption unless you enabled it the drive won’t be encrypted. What I think has confused you is the newer 2018 onwards MacBook Pro’s which use the T2 chip by default have encryption. Sorry ;-{
I had an a1708 macbook where it wouldn’t boot up. Microcenter told me $800 to repair logic board and that wouldn’t even guarantee the disk would be recoverable. I ended up buying a new macbook. After several months, I read about the “target disk mode” where you can just connect two computers together using USB C cable and treat the one computer as an external disk. I really thought it wouldn’t work…thinking Microcenter would have actually tried that. But, I bought the $25 cable nonetheless. And, it worked!! All you have to do is press the T key and then power it on in order to get to the “target disk mode”. This solution may be unique to me as my macbook would just get stuck in boot mode. If you can’t power it on, then I guess you’ll have to find another macbook with the same model to swap the SSD in.
I would get in touch with Rossman repair group as a lot of components are unnecessarily tied together via software. Certain models have a special port on the board for data recovery but they removed it in some of the newer models.
