My Time Capsule just failed. Won’t power up at all. Reading Apple’s forums, seems like this is not uncommon for Time Capsules. 

Apple says they will replace the TC, but DriveSavers wants $900-$2700 to recover the data I have stored there. 

My thought is that I can buy another TC for $399, and maybe remove the hard drives from the dead TC, put them in an external enclosure and recover the data myself.  Anyone had any experience with doing this?  Anyone know if the hard drives in a TC are compatible with some kind of external bay?

Thank you!

Hi Isa,

I’d recommend you contact Rick Ortiz, themacpro.com. When my hard drive failed earlier this year, he replaced it and rebuilt my system and recovered most of my data in a very timely way, at a reasonable price. Even if you have the expertise to do the hardware swap you describe, and the software to recover your data, it wouldn’t hurt to talk with him to confirm your plan or get some helpful tips. He does this all the time. I’d read a lot of advice online, and was a Unix system administrator years ago, so I was considering trying my own recovery along the lines you describe, but had more peace of mind leaving it to him.

And BTW, there’s a Maui Mac meeting this evening on the topic of backup and recovery!

Good luck,
Karen

Oh gosh, looks like I missed the meeting while helping a friend move.

I will give Rick a shout - he was helpful before in recommending a source for memory chips.

Thank you Karen, for taking the time to post; I appreciate your assist!

With aloha,
Isa