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

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  • Hard Drives
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  • Macbook Pro
  • External Hard Drive
  • Data Recovery
  • Enclosure
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November 14, 2013 10:02:58 AM

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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November 14, 2013 10:23:30 AM

Follow this tutorial to disassemble the macbook : http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Unib.... 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-parti...
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November 14, 2013 10:30:07 AM

mazout360 said:
Follow this tutorial to disassemble the macbook : http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Unib.... 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-parti...


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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November 14, 2013 10:39:11 AM

appreciated - sigh, I know :( 
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