Mounting An SATA From A Fusion Drive

[RAILhead]

Hey all

The SATA portion of the Fusion Drive in my iMac went bad, so I replaced it, and all is well. However, my Time Machine backup was corrupted, so I need to recover data from the old drive.

I dropped the drive into an enclosure and Disk Drill is able to see almost all my data — but it would be really, REALLY nice if I could just mount this drive and browse it like a standard hard drive. Apparently, since it was once part of a Fusion Drive, it won't mount on the Desktop now??? Is there any way to get it to mount without losing the data it contains?

I hope this question makes sense!

Thanks,
Maury

 

[casperes1996]

I doubt it. having been part of a fusion drive. The partition map could be entirely on the SSD or stripe across both either scenario, you would not be able to mount just one of them normally.

 

[Fishrrman]

Some data recovery firms -might- be able to get at the drive.
I said "might", because even for them, accessing only one portion of a fusion drive might be well-nigh impossible.

And even if they could, the cost would be VERY expensive. Many hundreds of $$, perhaps thousands.

Just how valuable is the data to you?

One more thought:
I know this doesn't help now, but NEXT TIME, use a backup program that will actually help you in a moment of need.
That means either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, and NOT time machine...