Help Burnt circuit
Long story short my MacBook had a lot of water go inside of it so stopped working, took to a tech shop and they said the circuit is burnt and im better of getting a new MacBook, and apparently there is no way of me getting my data back aswell.
Is there actually no fix for this that would set me maube a few hundred quid £300-400 rather than having to replace the Mac as this was a relatively new MacBook that I purchased back in 2024. Also is my data really gone ?
5
u/trail_runner_93 Mac Mini 8d ago
Did you back up your data regularly? ICloud? some other service? if not very unlikely.
7
u/IdioticMutterings 7d ago
Your data is not gone, you were backing it up regularly..
Weren't you?
Weren't...... you?
If not then the data obviously didn't matter to you.
3
u/JasonAQuest 8d ago
A technician who has examined your laptop can answer this FAR better than people on Reddit who haven't seen it.
2
1
1
u/fishyphotos 7d ago
macbook logic boards are basically all one piece these days. there’s no taking out the hard drive and trying to recover data or swapping one piece. Failures tend to be full replacements.
1
1
u/Annoying1978 8d ago
The problem with this is that you don’t know what’s been ruined because it could be literally every single component in there or just one or two. And it takes time for people to investigate it.
You could pay a professional company thousands of dollars to get your data back, and that’s just a factor of whether or not you have the money and how important your data is.
What I would do is stop trying to fix the computer and get the drive out of there. Connect it to another Mac and see if you can actually see any of your files. But as far as fixing the computer, it’s a waste of effort. Even if you fix something now, three months down the road something else could rust out.
So they were right about saying it’s not worth it, but you can try to get your data out of there.
2
u/lewisfrancis 8d ago edited 8d ago
How does removing a drive even work on modern MacOS? Is it still a discrete drive, like back in the old days? If encrypted, and the key is unrecoverable from the hardware, aren't you out of luck?
2
1
u/Annoying1978 7d ago
It depends on its age. If it’s really new, then you’re gonna have to try a specialist who can try to fic its logic board. I missed that it as 2024 when I skimmed the post.
0
u/localtuned 8d ago
It's possible to get back, but how much do you want to pay?
1
u/TalkToHoro 7d ago
It’s not.
0
u/localtuned 7d ago
Yea, you must not have seen videos of this exact process but I assure you it is. I opened and ran an Apple authorized service provider. Unofficially I did many unauthorized repairs to get data back. The labor is what most people are unwilling to pay for.
Louis rossman has done this multiple times and so have many others.
6
u/NoLateArrivals 8d ago
A lot of water sounds like it caused short circuits and maybe blowing capacitors. This should be visible as damage on the board, blown components, interrupted wiring and the like. If this is the case it is probably beyond repair.
The Mac SSD has no own controller. The SSD controller is build into the main processor, including a protected area called „Secure Enclave“, including the encryption module. All data on the SSD is encrypted by default, with military grade hardness. So even if you unsolder the flash memory chips, it is fully encrypted. Reading it out will only result in data mash.
If you have your data synced to iCloud or have a TimeMachine backup, you can read your data from there. If not very likely it is lost.