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The computer had water damage and was booting and shutting off intermittently. It now doesn’t boot at all (although I’m using a Dell XPS 13 charger to charge it at the moment, so finding an Apple charger could be one last thing I could try). I had someone look at it and they suggested I just sell it for parts. I plan to do that, but first I want to get the data off of the drive and also wipe the drive if possible. Because it doesn’t boot, “Target Disk Mode” is out. I saw some posts in this forum from around 2019 that explains that the SSD in this model, while removable, was proprietary and no adapter existed. I did manage to find what I believe is the correct adapter (https://e-forensic.ca/products/tda7-7-ap…) but apparently it’s designed to only hook into another piece of equipment that company makes. So it’s not like I can buy one and plug it into my USB port. Another idea was to send it off to a person or company that can image it for me (it will take some time to remember the password, so I hope imaging is an option). Something I can mount into a Linux box hopefully. I’m a little wary of what that price might be. It doesn’t need to be high for it to not be worth it, considering I’ve already had to send it around to be looked at. My only other option, as far as I can see, is to find a working MBP of the same year and plug this SSD into that to recover the files. Before I resort to that, do you have any other options or insights?
@mattalxndr - Your right, the only way to recover the data is using another 2016/17 13” Fn MacBook Pro. The only issue is if you’ve encrypted the drive. Then you’ll need to find your recovery key so access the data. Reference: Use FileVault to encrypt the startup disk on your Mac
Hello Matthew Alexander Is the hard drive damaged? Or do you need the information stored on the desktop and partition C?What do you want to recover?Did you create the partition D on the hard drive?
