How can I recover data from my hardrive?

hello

you say your screen is burned out, but you don't say if your computer boots, either from the internal HD or from an internal or external DVD unit, using a Linux live-CD/DVD for instance

This would allow, connected to an external screen, rather than taking your hard drive out of the case, to copy the contents of your drive to an external USB hard disk ?

If you see leds blinking and hear some clicks when you turn your computer on, it means it probably boots.

Try to find and connect an external screen. There should be an external screen connector on one of the edges of your laptop (probably the rear one). Every laptop has such connector, and a control key to switch from internal screen to external, and to both of them, that's very useful for people performing Powerpoint (or equivalent) slide shows. I am not a Mac user, but the user manual probably says how to switch screens.

When you have your external screen, computer powered off, connect the screen, turn it on, and then turn/push on your MBA. If you get at last a display, you are more than half-way to your data :-)

if you do a system restore you shouldn't lose your data files like jpeg, or.doc Im sure all your stuff is in a folder somewhere.. do a search on the entire c:\drive for .jpeg or .doc and see if you recover your stuff.. The only way to lose data is if you do a format and complete reinstallation of your operating system.. not if u do a sys restore. About the office files.. if they won't open it's prob because your using an incompatible new application.. go to the old ones right click on them go to properties and in there you should be able to change the application that opens that document.. just change it to word doc or notepad if just need to view a file but if you need work on a file and edit it reinstall the original application you were using when it workedd fine. Hope that helps.

Time goes by and new options come along. OWC makes a couple of external SSD Blade enclosures. The Envoy and the Envoy Pro. The OWC Envoy OWCMAU3ENVOY12 USB 3.0 Enclosure for data transfer/continued externals should work for you. Newer machines use the Envoy Pro.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MAU3E...

Look for these on eBay because people buy them, use them once for recovery and then sell them.

what happens if after spilling water in MAC Air with precious unbacked up data, it turns black and won'tturn on. How can data be recovered in that case?

Thanks

Take the HDD out of the enclosure and plug directly into the main board. See if you can access it then.

It looks like your only route is professional data recovery like uFlysoft:

Step 1. Launch the software to scan the device where your files deleted

Step 2: Preview the scan result files and make mark if it is the one you find

Step 3: Recover files

There are plenty of reasons for the lost or missing data in Mac system. However, to get out of the problems like above and recover your data quickly you should better use the backup created earlier. The backup file plays a very important role in restoring the lost data on Mac system. However, in case if you haven't created a backup file then in such case you need to use a very reliable and powerful Mac data recovery software.

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