MacBooks fail beautifully — no clicks, no warnings, just a machine that won't charge or wake. Whether it's a spilled drink, a dead logic board or a failed SSD, we recover MacBook Air and Pro data for customers across Sheffield.
Free diagnostic on every apple macbook job. Fixed quote before any work — and no fix, no fee.
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; storage is extracted or the board repaired far enough to release it.
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.
Soldered encrypted storage needs the board functional — micro-soldering plus your password.
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 drives; 2013–2017 models use Apple's proprietary blade SSDs; everything since has storage soldered to the logic board and encrypted by the T2 chip or Apple Silicon. Each needs a different recovery route — drive-out imaging, blade adapters, or board-level work where a dead MacBook is brought back to life just long enough to extract its data. We do all three in-house.
Tea, coffee and water head straight for the logic board. The good news: the SSD data usually survives the spill. 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 is board work as much as storage work:
Schematics, boardviews and hot-air rework for liquid damage and dead power rails.
Corroded boards are stripped, bathed and treated before repair — the difference between saved and lost.
12+16-pin and gumstick formats attach natively for imaging without the donor MacBook.
T2 and Apple Silicon Macs are accessed through Apple's own restore and transfer pathways.
Native file-system parsing, snapshot recovery and FileVault handling with your credentials.
Pre-2012 machines with mechanical drives get the classic hard drive treatment.
Bring the password for anything 2018 onwards — on T2 and Apple Silicon machines it's cryptographically part of your data.
Most customers post or courier their device to us — it arrives next morning, and the free diagnostic starts the day it lands.
Sending a drive from a computer, laptop, MacBook, iMac 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. If the storage is soldered in (e.g. Apple Silicon), call us first on 0800 689 0668.
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