Data is the most precious thing about any device. Weather it be the pictures on your phone or the story you are writing on your laptop. Laptops and phones can easily be replaced. If you do not have a backup your data can be lost forever.

If you have a device that no longer operates and you need the data from it I might be able to help.

Pricing, time frame, and the chances of getting your data vary greatly from device to device and even vary for the same device with different faults. General pricing would be $100-$250 to copy a working hard drive to a new USB drive (the USB drive would be extra or you can provide one). $250-$500 for lost partitions or file corruption that needs a software scan to recover. Any service more then these I would not be equipped to handle here. I can assess the damage and suggest the proper place to bring your device to. Services like this would be HDD head swaps, HDD surface damage, SSD chip-off recovery, or even SD card controller bypass recovery. These services can run anywhere from $1000 upwards of $10,000 depending on what is needed.

With older MacBooks (2015 and older) getting your data may be as simple as removing the SSD/HDD from the machine and, with the proper adapters, make a copy to a USB hard drive. If the drive has seen liquid damage or drop damage it may be much more complicated then that. However with these older machines, even with liquid damage to the machine does not mean the drive has seen liquid.

All the newer machines are a different story. Everything 2016 and newer has the SSD (Solid State Drive) integrated to the logic board. It is actually part of the logic board, not removable. With these machines the best path to getting your data back from a non working device is to get the device working again. This can mean fixing the device in full and it is ready to be used by you again or getting the device to work just enough to turn on and copy off your data. Examples of this are in some cases the area of the board that deals with WiFi can be so damaged that it will no longer let the machine turn on. I would just remove all the WiFi related circuits from the logic board just to get the machine to turn on for the couple of hours needed to copy your data. The logic board would pretty much be garbage after this. Price permitting we would then get a replacement board to get your machine up and running again.

There are some machines that have a very low chance of data recovery. Namely are the A2141 2019 16in, A1990 2018 15in, and all of the M1-M2 line of MacBooks. With the A1990 and A2141 the part of these machines that fail most often is the storage chips themselves. Actually what fails it is the power structure that supplies the chips and burns them out. In these cases no data is recoverable, the chip that held your data is burnt out and gone forever. If you own one of these machines DO NOT EVER pay somebody up-front because they say they will get your data. Data recovery for an A1990 or A2141 is a 20% chance of success. Also if you own one of these machines KEEP A BACKUP!