How to recover photos off a smashed MacBook Pro (2011)

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orion42

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A few months ago someone completely smashed my macbook pro (they bought me a new one but still) but I'd really like to get the data off the old hard drive. If it's still intact I have heard that you can remove the hard drive and place it in a new enclosure and it makes sort of an external hard drive you can try and recover data from.
My question is how do I get the thing apart (buy mini screwdrivers?) and what is the enclosure I would need to buy? (and any other useful information I am missing!)
Thanks so much :)
 
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Follow this tutorial to disassemble the macbook : http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Unibody+Early+2011+Teardown/4990. You don't need to take everything out, only the HDD (which is the lower left gray rectangle thing with a sticker in the picture from step 14). Then you don't necessarily need an enclosure...you could simply connect it with a SATA cable inside a desktop computer and connect it with a power cable from your PSU. The only problem is, if your desktop computer isn't a mac, you would need to do something like : http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/access-mac-os-x-partition-from-windows.html
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Follow this tutorial to disassemble the macbook : http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Unibody+Early+2011+Teardown/4990. You don't need to take everything out, only the HDD (which is the lower left gray rectangle thing with a sticker in the picture from step 14). Then you don't necessarily need an enclosure...you could simply connect it with a SATA cable inside a desktop computer and connect it with a power cable from your PSU. The only problem is, if your desktop computer isn't a mac, you would need to do something like : http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/access-mac-os-x-partition-from-windows.html
 
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Thanks for the link :)
My new computer is a mac laptop as well so I'd rather not take it all apart if I don't need to. (Don't have a desktop at the moment)
 
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