MacBooks fail beautifully — no clicks, no warnings, just a machine that won't charge or wake. Whether it's a spilled drink, a failed drive or a removable blade SSD, we recover data from MacBook Air and Pro models with removable storage for customers across Sheffield.
Free diagnostic on every apple macbook job. One fixed quote in writing before any work begins.
No fix, no fee all jobs except electronic and mechanical failures, chip level work, DVR and Forensic jobs. Full pricing is on the data recovery cost page.
Every apple macbook job starts by matching the symptoms to the fault — these ten cover almost everything that reaches the bench.
The number-one MacBook killer — corrosion races across the logic board while the SSD data usually survives.
Dead board or charging circuit — where the drive or blade SSD can be removed, we image it directly, so a dead board doesn't stop recovery.
The internal drive or SSD has failed or lost its system — data-first extraction, then repair decisions.
Mid-update death leaves the Mac looping; documents are intact beneath the broken install.
Older MacBooks carry standard 2.5" drives that fail mechanically — clean-bench work.
Apple's proprietary SSD sticks die like any SSD; adapters and service-mode access recover them.
A wrong click in Disk Utility wipes the volume; on a removable drive it's recoverable while the freed space survives.
With your password or recovery key, encrypted volumes recover normally — have it ready when you call.
Recoverable while the space survives; stop using the Mac immediately.
Flexgate and panel failures strand your data behind dark glass — extraction is routine.
Pre-2012 MacBooks use standard 2.5-inch drives and 2013–2017 models use Apple's proprietary blade SSDs — both can be removed and imaged, and both we recover. From 2018 onward the storage is soldered to the logic board and hardware-encrypted by the T2 chip or Apple Silicon: it can't be removed, and if the board or the storage fails the data can't be lifted off. We don't offer recovery for soldered Mac storage — we stopped attempting board-level recovery on these machines two years ago because the success rate was too low to promise anyone. If you're not sure which your MacBook is, call us before sending it.
Tea, coffee and water head straight for the logic board. The good news: on models with a removable drive or blade SSD, the data usually survives the spill and we image it directly. Don't charge it, don't 'wait and see' — corrosion spreads daily. Get the machine to us fast and the odds are strongly in your favour.
MacBook recovery centres on getting the removable drive or blade SSD onto an imaging rig:
12+16-pin and gumstick blade formats attach natively for imaging without the donor MacBook.
Pre-2012 MacBooks with mechanical 2.5-inch drives get the classic hard drive treatment.
Liquid-damaged removable blades and their connectors are cleaned and treated so the module can be read.
Native file-system parsing, snapshot recovery and FileVault handling with your password.
Lost APFS snapshots, deleted files and wiped volumes are carved back where the freed space survives.
Removable drives another lab returned unrecovered get a genuine second attempt on fresh hardware.
We recover MacBooks whose storage can be removed and imaged. We don't recover storage soldered to the logic board — the T2 and Apple Silicon machines from 2018 onward.
Most customers post their media to us, tracked and insured.
Sending a drive from a computer, laptop, MacBook, iMac, CCTV / DVR or server? Please remove the internal hard drive or SSD and send us just the drive — we don't provide an internal drive-removal service. We don't recover storage soldered to a motherboard (e.g. Apple Silicon Macs and some thin laptops) — only drives that can be removed and sent to us.
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