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macbook air 2013 crashed and will not recognize internal SSD - need to recover data from drive before erasing it.
when in disk utilities it does not show Mac drive but has Mac OS X Base system. When selected it displays capacity of drive, amount available, and used. How do I recover the data?
MacBook Air
From what you describe, it appears the internal storage has failed.
How do I recover the data?
Repair the Mac then restore its Time Machine backup, or replace the Mac and transfer its contents from its Time Machine backup. You may conclude the Mac is uneconomical to repair, but first research internal SSD options from OWC / MacSales.
You might try Target Disk Mode to determine if another Mac could extract any data from it: Transfer files between two Mac computers using target disk mode - Apple Support.
From what you describe you tried Disk Utility in Recovery mode, and the internal disk does not even appear. Is that correct? If so booting from another device won't change anything. Recovery Mode is the same as booting from some other device.
Tried Time Machine and does not recognize it. Is there still a way to extract the data from the drive?
None that I am aware of. I'm not sure what you mean by "does not recognize it" though. Time Machine won't recognize a failed drive.
If I set up an external drive to run the OS is there a way to read the internal drive content?
That is correct. So there is no way to recover the data from the ssd?
MacBook Air 2013 - internal SSD not recognize
