lamiak14

Q: Macbook air water damage data recovery transfer flash storage from macbook air to macbook pro retina

Last week, I spilled water on my macbook air which switched off right away after that.
It's been one week that I let it to dry without attempting to switch it on.

Unfortunetaly, I haven't had a backup made since 2 weeks, (of course bad luck has to happen at the worst moment), and I really need to recover my data from the ssd flash drive.

 

I thought about transfering the ssd flashdrive of the macbook air to a macbook pro retina, and recover the data from the macbook pro retina by doing a backup. Would that work? Doing so wouldn't damage the macbook pro retina?

I have a macbook air early  2014, the macbook pro retina is also from the same year.

 

Thank you for your answers.

Best regards.

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Sep 19, 2016 11:37 PM

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  • by kaz-k,

    kaz-k kaz-k Sep 20, 2016 12:09 AM in response to lamiak14
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    Sep 20, 2016 12:09 AM in response to lamiak14

    You'd better using external enclosure of MacBook Air's SSD rather than MacBook Pro.

    https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MAU3ENPRPCI/

  • by dwb,Helpful

    dwb dwb Sep 20, 2016 5:02 AM in response to lamiak14
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    Sep 20, 2016 5:02 AM in response to lamiak14

    There’s a chance that the SSD was one of the components that shorted out and if that’s the case you do not want to put it into another computer. You could wind up sending that computer to its death as well. kaz-k is correct. Your better choice is to install it into an external enclosure. If the SSD shorted out the worst that would happen is that the enclosure’s circuitry would be damaged.

  • by lamiak14,

    lamiak14 lamiak14 Sep 20, 2016 5:09 AM in response to dwb
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    Sep 20, 2016 5:09 AM in response to dwb

    Thank you for your answer, the enclosure is not really cheap to buy, so I was wondering if other ways would work, but I understand your point and I will not swap the SSDs.
    What do you think about accessing the ssd data through target disk mode instead?
    Is it still dangerous for the computer that I would connect to the macbook air?
    Is there a risk that I would damage the macbook air SSD even more?

    Thanks.

  • by dwb,

    dwb dwb Sep 20, 2016 11:02 AM in response to lamiak14
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    Sep 20, 2016 11:02 AM in response to lamiak14

    For target disk mode the computer has to be able to boot. For your problem, if it can boot there’s no reason to use target disk mode. An Apple tech, either at an Apple store or a reputable independent repair center should be able to access the data assuming the SSD functions but the charge would be a standard bench hour which will cost more than the enclosure and the positive thing about the enclosure is that if the SSD is good you now have a fast external drive.