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📣 achillesheels

Apple MacBook power failure. No way to recover SSD data?


My 2015 MacBook failed to turn on Sunday evening and the data recovery diagnostics company gave me the bad news yesterday afternoon: because everything is integrated onto the encrypted logic board, there is no way to recover the data during a power failure. This is due to Apple’s proprietary tech.

I find this hard to believe that the data can’t be retrieved (and I have some important research I did not have time to back up over the weekend to recover). Is there absolutely no way to recover this data during a mobo failure?

I really appreciate the response (especially from any Apple engineers out there :))


  👤 joshstrange Accepted Answer ✓
I was under the impression 2015's all still had removable hard drives but after looking at the iFixit I guess I was wrong. At this point I'd think about contacting Rossmann Repair Group [0]. I've never used them or been in your position but this is the guy who is famous for repairing logic boards and other "un-repairable" components from Apple.

[0] https://rossmanngroup.com/


👤 millzlane
Going to an apple store. Without saying to much that I shouldn't say, there exists a device that could power up a dead main logic board for data transfer.

👤 dv_dt
Ask Apple support directly, they may have options that third parties do not offer.