A1708 MBP Data Recovery

[Six6siX]

Spent a while googling furiously and nothing came to light - thought I'd ask in case anyone has any ideas or if I've missed anything!

Trying to get data off an SSD from a 2017 MBP A1708 - the drive is removable but non-standard connector obviously. All the adapters I can find just seem to be to convert the slot to accept a standard NVMe rather than make the SSD available on a standard interface.

Does this exist or is the only way to get another MBP and swap the drives over to access the data? (assuming it's not encrypted).

Cheers

 

[Six6siX]

They do have an iCloud account but it's full unfortunately, so syncing stopped a while back by the look of things.

No Time Machine backup either.

 

[Six6siX]

What condition is the Mac in? Are you sure it's a 2017 model (fairly sure they don't have removeable drives)

Its in good condition cosmetically but doesn't power on at all. It's the non-touchbar model so has removable SSD like @visibleman mentioned.

As you say, if it isn't encrypted then transferring it to another system is the only real option and it's what a lot of (Apple) data recovery companies will do.

What's the state of the existing MBP? As target mode might be an option.

Non-touchbar 13" Late 2016/Mid 2017 both supported Apple's removal SSD from memory. Touchbar variants had the "SSD" on the logic board.

As it's not powering on at all I don't think target mode will help either.

From what I understand, it stopped working on battery first (only turned on when plugged in), then eventually stopped turning on altogether even when plugged in.

 

[Six6siX]

Didn't realise that was a thing, thanks! @Feek @visibleman

Amazing, PRAM reset saves the day.

Hopefully it's a lesson to make sure everything gets backed up regularly and to sort the iCloud backup!

Thanks for the suggestions