Getting data off harddrive when logic board is bad.

My Mac has stopped booting and I am curently waiting for a replacement logic board to fix the issue. However until it arrives, is there a way I can get the data off of the harddrive? The ccomputer will not start in target mode so that option does not work. I can't think of any other way.
Any ideas would be helpful.

If the issue is with the logic board (and, thus you can't start target disk mode), you need to take the system to a Mac service center (such as your local Mac store) and have them remove the drive for you so that you can put it in an external enclosure and access the data from another computer.
That will cost you money. You can do it yourself (there's instructions on the net), but in doing so you's void your warrantly. If there's one thing I'd nit-pick about the Mac (er, Apple), is that they don't make things (other than the Mac Pro) user-servicable. I think it they could actually reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction by making it so. Swapping out hard-disks is really necessary for all sorts of reasons today, not the least of which is that the bigger they get the more likely (and more frequently) they fail.

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