Hello! I accidentally spilled water on my macbook air. I am still able to turn my laptop on, but I could not log in due to damage to the keyboard. I have some very important files in my laptop that I want to backup to an external drive. I am wondering if there are any ways for me to backup my laptop without logging in to my macbook. Thank you!
MacBook Air, It is the latest model
tttang0430 wrote:
... I have some very important files in my laptop that I want to backup ...
If the data were that important, you would have backed up before the catastrophe.
Backups need to occur before catastrophes. After a catastrophe it is too late.
Thanks! that really helped!
Best of luck.
Pull out MacBook Air's SSD and install it into MacBook Air SSD external enclosure case which is something like following then connect it another Mac to backup data on it.
HI!
the same happened to me but my laptop is like dead now. Did u do something to get the datas?
Hello I will try this as soon as possible! Thank you so much!
Hi! not yet! I'll try to go the Apple store to see if they can do anything.
You could try using a known-good external USB keyboard, either an Apple or generic PC should work.
To use non-Apple non-Mac keyboard with Mac OS X and Macintosh, see this MS support article:
• Keyboard mappings using PC keyboard on a Macintosh:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/970299
An Apple support article which replaced a more helpful one, still has generic details in reverse logic:
Use your Apple Keyboard in Windows with Boot Camp - Apple Support
And then if you have access to a second computer that can be used to see yours, if the above keyboard
can only get you into the damp computer as far as Target Disk Mode, you could try & copy content off
the water-damaged laptop to another computer or through another one, copy to a USB flash or other drive.
OS X Mountain Lion: Transfer files between two computers using target disk mode (conditional, most OS X)
In any event...
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
backup data from a water damaged laptop
