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TurboJobo

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Jan 24, 2009
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Hi so this is the story my friends Mom dropped coffee on the macbook keyboard so the keyboard got F'ed up and it would work but the laptop worked fine untill we send it to bestbuy and now it wont turn on. :/
so how can i retrieve all the pictures and others stuff my friend wants? from the HDD because im guessing the hdd still works
i know i need to open the macbook and retrieve the hdd and use something but i dont know what it is :/ like an case so it can connect through usb to another laptop and how do you boot the os x from it? thanks :) :confused::apple::):D:eek::(;):p:cool::cool::eek::mad::mad::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
You can either buy an external drive enclosure to put the hard drive in or you can opt to buy a simple SATA adapter that plugs into your hard drive on one end and then will plug into another machine via USB.

Additionally, iFixIt has guides on opening your MacBook and extracting the hard drive. It's pretty simple for MacBooks, so you shouldn't need to worry too much about messing up anything else in the machine.

Good luck.
 
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