On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:41 PM, steve harley <st...@paper-ape.com> wrote:

> on 2013-01-10 21:30 Charles Dyer wrote
>> How difficult would it be to open the MBA and remove the drive? The drive, 
>> once out of the MBA, could be attached to a drive-to-USB connector and you 
>> could attach it to another Mac and nuke it from there. Alternatively you 
>> could keep the old drive as a backup and replace it with a new drive.
>>
>> If this MBA has a SSD, then this probably won't work.
>
> macsales.com (possibly among others) has external cases that work with the 
> MacBook Air SSDs, and replacements for the SSDs
>
> if the Air is new enough, i understand Target Disk Mode works with 
> Thunderbolt; this would require another Thunderbolt Mac and a cable
>
>
>

Thank you both. It's a late 2008, so SSD but the first one with SSD,
so no thunderbolt.

I might try opening it, but I ave to put it back together to give away.


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