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Hi, We need to recover important and precious pictures off our MacBook 12" Retina 2015. Either by removing the SSD if possible and placing it in some sort of caddy if available or some form of data recovery to recover our pictures. We have pictures of our young children and our 7 week USA holiday so we are devastated :( Any help would be greatly appreciated! Many Thanks Update (09/15/2015) Hi, I have got back to the UK now and have stripped the computer down and cleaned it bit by bit. The logic board is showing a small white LED when the charger is connected/batteries. However, nothing else is happening, can’t power up etc etc. Can anybody suggest anything? Where could we purchase an upper case for the laptop? If someone thinks that it will work. I will try it. Is there anyway of being able to remove the Toshiba SSD off the Logic board and place it into some sort of external caddy/drive to remove the pictures, we are very desperate to retrieve these pictures. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Update (09/23/2015) Hi there, Thank you to everyone for all their help. We managed to swap the logic board into a new Macbook and retrieve our pictures and everything on it. After a further clean up we managed to get the original Macbook working. Once again, Many thanks to everyone who helped. :)
Sadly there is no means to remove the SSD as its part of the logic board! Can you tell us what happened here. It might be possible to transplant the logic board into a second MacBook to recover things. Here is the IFIXIT teardown to review: Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown Jump down to Steps 12 & 13 to see the location of the two chips (orange outline).
See if it will boot up in Target Mode with another Mac, then drag your photos out. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH10725?loc…
Alright if you really need all the data off the computer i would recommend sending the computer to someone who can repair the logic board rather then trying to fix it yourself and risk losing everything. As the SSD is soldered on and you would need to unsolder it from the first board and solder onto a second all requiring very good quality and expensive hot air stations. Sorry this probably isnt what you wanted to hear but its going to be your best bet to get all your data.
