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How do I recover data from a vaulted macbook drive?

My macbook has recently gone up in flames, mostly, and I now find myself in the position of attempting to recover data from its drive.

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"This assumes that the hard drive is physically intact. This came up on the Apple Discussion Boards for 10.5. Put the drive into a 2.5"" enclosure and hook it up to another Mac. Use an Admin account (call it user2) to mount user1's FileVault using the following command in Terminal:

sudo hdiutil attach /Volumes/UpInFlames/Users/user1/user1.sparsebundle

where UpInFlames is the volume name of your MacBook drive. You'll need the password of the user2 as well as the password on the sparsebundle."