How to Restore Data from Dead MacBook?

Sometimes your MacBook may stop working all of a sudden or may not start when turn it on. You try everything that you could to bring it back to normal working state, but nothing worked for you. You don’t have any idea why your MacBook go dead and what caused this disaster. You have saved lot of valuable information on MacBook hard drive, which you need to get back. How do you deal with this issue? Some users seek technical advice, while others think that their data is permanently lost from dead MacBook. But fact is you can resolve this issue and get data off dead MacBook hard disk on your own without taking anyone’s help.

The hard drive of MacBook can go dead when there are some severe problems like software conflicts, system file corruption, operating system malfunction, etc. Even though you cannot access anything from dead MacBook, you can try getting data using a built in utility i.e. “Target Disk Mode” to transfer the data off the hard drive. It works by connecting MacBook to another Mac OS based machine through FireWire cable and starting Target Disk Mode. It allows you to access MacBook's hard drive from the other Mac computer like an external disk and helps to restore your data. Follow below give procedure to transfer your files.

• Log on to healthy MacBook with an administrator account
• Open System Preferences by clicking on the icon in the dock
• Now go to the “Startup Disk” control panel under the “System” category
• Click on the “Target Disk Mode” button and then click “Restart” to confirm your decision
• Connect dead MacBook to the healthy one with a FireWire cable and restart the computer. When your MacBook restarts, it will enter “Target Disk Mode” and will appear as an external hard drive
• Now copy important files and folders into the MacBook that is working

However, in case if you don’t find your files even after using “Target Disk Mode”, then download and install good Mac data recovery software to the Mac computer, to which you have connected dead MacBook to retrieve get data. But prior to recovery, let us have a look at few symptoms which are indication of problems with your MacBook hard drive as explained below for your reference:

• Data corruption: Signs of data corrupt on your MacBook can start with the mysterious disappearance of files despite saved on it. At the same time, it may unexpectedly reappear and suddenly goes missing from your MacBook hard drive
• Slow booting and saving: Slow booting or saving of files on MacBook can be an indication that its hard drive is about to go dead in coming days. This may be accompanied by frequent freezing or hanging up of your MacBook
• Weird noises: MacBook should operate in relative silence with minimal grinding, straining or clicking sounds. In case your MacBook produces clicking or weird noises when you switched it on, then it can be a sign that shows that the mechanical components in the drive are wearing out
• Dead logic board: In case your MacBook is too old i.e. if you use it for more than two years, then logic board of MacBook may go dead, due to which MacBook stops working

If we keep on counting, there are countless reasons responsible for dead MacBook hard drive. The above detailed are just four important causes. Hence, remembering that nothing is permanent, it is an excellent idea to backup your precious data as soon as the MacBook hard drive shows the sign of its deadness. You may find it very difficult, especially when moving heavy files from MacBook to an external hard drive; but it is the single most important effort you can make to ensure no loss of files and folders from MacBook occurs. However, if you are late to backup your data and it got lost due to dead of MacBook hard drive, then it is recommended to use data recovery software.

Dead MacBook Data Retrieval Tool:

Yodot Mac Data Recovery software is best choice to use in this case for recovering each and every file from dead MacBook hard drive. By utilizing this software, you can get back MS Office documents, images, music files, videos and other files from dead MacBook. Along with MacBook (MacBook Air, MacBook Pro), you can also restore data from Mac Mini, iMac Mac desktops, whose hard drive is dead. During data recovery process, the software does not alter the original file contents and ensure secure recovery of data. The user interface provided in this software is very simple so that you dont require any technical knowledge to operate it.

Guidelines to recover data from dead MacBook

• Download Yodot Mac Data Recovery from the website and install it to a healthy Macintosh system
• Connect your dead MacBook hard drive to the healthy MacBook and launch the software
• The software displays two option from the main screen i.e. “Volume Recovery” or “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery”
• Select “Volume Recovery” option to recover data from dead MacBook hard drive
• The software scans MacBook and displays the drives present in it
• Choose storage volume that indicates your dead MacBook click on “Next” button
• On the next screen, you can choose file types that are to be recovered from dead MacBook and click Skip option to choose all file types by default
• The application now repeats the scanning process and displays all the deleted / lost data from the selected Volume
• Preview media files and finally save them to a desired location accessible to your Mac system

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