• Restorer Ultimate Documentation

Apple CoreStorage/File Vault/Fusion Drive Volumes


The macOS operating system has the following disk management systems:

File Vault , is a disk encrypted utility;

Fusion Drive is an Apple's hybrid drive technology;

CoreStorage is a logical volume management system.

 

Restorer Ultimate  supports all these technologies and can unlock their encrypted volumes (hard drives and images).

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Locked CoreStorage Volume in Restorer Ultimate

To unlock the volume

1. Right-click the encrypted volume and select Unlock encrypted drive on the shortcut menu.
2. Enter the password on the Unlock encrypted drive dialog box
> Restorer Ultimate will unlock the volume
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Unlocked CoreStorage Volume in Restorer Ultimate

Apple Fusion Drive

Restorer Ultimate automatically detects the components of Apple Fusion Drive and creates virtual Fusion Drives automatically. At the same time, Restorer Ultimate gives access to the individual components of the Apple Fusion Drive (hard drives and images).

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Fusion Drive in Restorer Ultimate

When an automatically created Fusion Drive  is selected, Restorer Ultimate highlights its components.

Restorer Ultimate shows the components of the Apple Fusion Drive on its APFS Fusion Components tab. Right-click the mdadm RAID and select Setup APFS Fusion Components on the shortcut menu.

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APFS Fusion Drive Components tab

Restorer Ultimate shows broken Fusion Drive in pink.

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Broken Fusion Drive in Restorer Ultimate

The APFS Fusion Drive Components tab also allows you to manually disconnect or connect the components, for example, if they are such damaged that Restorer Ultimate cannot recognize them as parts of a broken Fusion Drive. Select the object from the drop-down box and click the Connect button. Restorer Ultimate displays the objects it recognizes as the components of the Fusion Drive in blue.

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Adding a component manually

You may immediately switch to the Fusion Drive configuration that Restorer Ultimate believes most probable by clicking the Reassemble button.

Restorer Ultimate shows Fusion Drive with manually added components in blue:

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APFS Fusion Drive with added components in Restorer Ultimate