Data recovery on a liquid damaged Apple Macbook Pro Touch Bar

We recover data from all Macbook laptops, from the 12 inch Macbook all the way up to the Macbook Pro 16 inch. Apple is always ahead of the game when it comes to innovation. Over the years their Macbook models have impressed us with their design and performance. In order to make a thinner design possible along with faster data read and write speeds, they have had to develop hard drives that meet this requirement. Go back a few years and Macbook and Macbook Pro laptops used normal, spinning hard drives. SSD technology became the new norm and Apple, instead of using what was available to the rest of us, designed their own range of SSD interfaces. These SSDs were not made by Apple, but rather by Samsung, Toshiba etc. Either way, the connectors were proprietary Mac designs. Below is an idea of the variations we’ve had over the years.

Earlier Macbook SSD types that we recover data from:

Different Apple Mac SSD types that we recover data from

Things continue to evolve in the Macbook space and now, for certain models, the hard drive is soldered onto the mainboard of the Macbook itself. This 2016 Macbook Pro Touch Bar model A1706 is a culprit, having no removable SSD. This client’s Macbook Pro suffered a coffee spill which rendered the machine dead. It wouldn’t turn on or even charge. If it were an earlier model we could remove the SSD, test it and recover the data by using the relevant adapter. That’s not the case with this model. However, a tool does exist which allows us to bypass the mainboard and access the hard drive separately.

Apple Macbook Pro data recovery tools

We bypass the rest of the Macbook Pro completely, tap into a special port on the mainboard that connects directly to the internal storage. We do this through a host Mac over Thunderbolt 3. The host Mac, in this case a Mac Mini, allows us to mount the Macbook Pro’s hard drive and recover the data.

Apple Mac mini used in the data recovery

For this example, we are choosing to recover the entire drive, not just user data, by using the restore function in disk utility. In just under an hour we’ve got a successful recovery of a liquid damaged Macbook Pro with data copied to a new external drive for the client to collect.

Apple Mac data recovery software used during the data recovery

We are able to perform data recovery on the following Macbook models, whether it’s liquid damage, physical damage, electrical issues or anything else:

MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2013 A1425

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2013 A1502

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2014 A1502

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2015 A1502

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2016 A1706

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2016 A1708

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2017 A1706

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2017 A1708

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2018 A1989

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2019 A1989

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2019 A2159

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2020 A2251

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2020 A2289

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2020 A2338 (M1)

Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch 2022 A2338 (M2)

MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch

Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch 2013 A1398

Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch 2014 A1398

Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch 2015 A1398

Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch 2016 A1707

Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch 2017 A1707

Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch 2018 A1990

Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch 2019 A1990

MacBook Pro 14-inch

Macbook Pro 14-inch 2021 A2442 (M1 Pro / M1 Max)

Macbook Pro 14-inch 2023 A2779 (M2 Pro / M2 Max)

Macbook Pro 14-inch 2023 A2992 (M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max)

Macbook Pro 14-inch 2024 A3180 (M4 / M4 Pro)

MacBook Pro 16-inch

Macbook Pro 16-inch 2019 A2141 (Intel)

Macbook Pro 16-inch 2021 A2485 (M1 Pro / M1 Max)

Macbook Pro 16-inch 2023 A2780 (M2 Pro / M2 Max)

Macbook Pro 16-inch 2023 A2991 (M3 Pro / M3 Max)

Macbook Pro 16-inch 2024 A3181 (M4 Pro / M4 Max)

MacBook Air 11-inch

Macbook Air 11-inch 2013 A1465 (Intel)

Macbook Air 11-inch 2014 A1465 (Intel)

Macbook Air 11-inch 2015 A1465 (Intel)

MacBook Air 13-inch

Macbook Air 13-inch 2013 A1466 (Intel)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2014 A1466 (Intel)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2015 A1466 (Intel)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2017 A1466 (Intel)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2018 A1932 (Intel)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2019 A1932 (Intel)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2020 A2179 (Intel)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2020 A2337 (M1)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2022 A2681 (M2)

Macbook Air 13-inch 2024 A3113 (M3)

MacBook Air 15-inch

Macbook Air 15-inch 2023 A2941 (M2)

Macbook Air 15-inch 2024 A3114 (M3)

MacBook 12-inch

Macbook 12-inch 2015 A1534 (Intel)

Macbook 12-inch 2016 A1534 (Intel)

Macbook 12-inch 2017 A1534 (Intel)

We’re happy to help you with Macbook data recovery in Cape Town, contact us for any questions you might have.

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