How can I recover data from a crashed drive on my MacBook Pro?

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JanneDJ Author

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How can I recover data from a crashed drive on my MacBook Pro?

Hi guys.

I´m from Sweden and my technical english is not very good, but i will try to explain.

I´m looking for a way to read and distract the information from my crashed drive.

Stupid me didn´t have a back-up for the first time i ages..

I can dissasseble the laptop but i don´t know what to use to do so, there is a jungle out there of different M2 types.

Is there a reader, a external enclosure or something to help me?

Best regards

// Janne

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MacBook Air 15″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 19, 2025 1:49 AM

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Grant Bennet-Alder

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Mar 19, 2025 6:30 AM in response to JanneDJ

Macs capable of running MacOS 15 are 2018 and later. Those and all later model MacBook Pro have the Boot internal SSD drive components soldered to the logic board, and there is no standard 'device' that can be removed and placed in an enclosure.

There is no point in taking it apart.

• When data are deleted from an SSD drive, the data blocks are gone within seconds.

• If you had an old-fashioned Rotating Magnetic drive, only the directory entires are erased, so the data blocks might be salvageable. Most utilities promising to do this job are OLD, do NOT work on SSD drives. Buyer beware!

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Mar 19, 2025 8:20 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

… If you had an old-fashioned Rotating Magnetic drive, only the directory entires are erased, so the data blocks might be salvageable. Most utilities promising to do this job are OLD, do NOT work on SSD drives.

And won’t work when the storage is encrypted as is now common with FileVault, and as is universal with Macs using T2 and later.

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