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MacBook Pro 2018 15" died but need to extract a hard drive soldered onto the board

I have a 2018 PowerBook Pro that will not start at all. It has a 2 TB SSD. Not all the data is backed up. It is under warranty and Apple tells me that if it is serviced, they will trash the old drive and replace the entire logic board and a new HD. Does anyone know how to extract data from the hard drive that is soldered onto the board? Drivesavers is quoting about $4K. Thanks in advance.

Posted on May 8, 2021 8:50 PM

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Posted on May 8, 2021 10:47 PM

Hi,

I think there is no way to salvage data from SSD which is soldered on logic board.

It could be possible your MacBook Pro would wake up with resetting SMC as well as NVRAM.

How to reset the SMC of your Mac - Apple Support

Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac - Apple Support


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