Fusion Drive Recovery: How to Recover Data from Fusion Disk

Stop suffering from fusion disk data loss, we can help. EaseUS Mac data recovery software helps you recover deleted or lost files from fusion drive safely. Install it, scan the storage device, preview and recover your data.

What is Fusion Drive? What's the difference between a Fusion Drive and an SSD or HDD? A Fusion Drive is a hybrid drive. It contains a hard disk drive and a solid-state drive. That's the manufacturer's way.

Apple puts an SSD on the computer motherboard separately from the HDD and relies on macOS to integrate the two. But files aren't stored separately on the two drives. Though great to use, fusion drives are prone to data loss if an accident occurs. This post will help you perform a fusion drive recovery to recover data.

Why Do You Lose Data on Fusion Drive

Fusion Drive may run into trouble just like any other storage device. Data loss situations can also happen on this drive due to many possible reasons as follows, accidental deletion, virus attack or physical damage are often the case.

Some more detailed causes:

• 🔴Accidentally deleted files or formatted disk/partition
• 🟠Virus attack or hardware failure 
• 🟡Fusion Drive becomes unbootable
• 🟢Separated Fusion Drive. The storage is presented as two drives instead of one

Fix 1. Recover Data from Fusion Drive with Data Recovery Software

Is there a way to restore Mac Fusion Drive data? Yes, and the answer is EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac! This do-it-yourself data recovery solution is helpful when there isn't a backup. This program supports all major documents, photos, videos, and audio files. You can easily recover deleted files on Mac from your fusion drive, or external devices like an SD card or a USB.

Lost Fusion Drive data can be recovered with the help of this professional data recovery tool for Mac. Download this software and recover data from your drive with the steps below:

Step 1. Scan for lost data on the fusion drive

Select the Fusion Drive partition where you lost data and files. Click the "Search for lost files" button. If you don't know which partition is the fusion drive, click the "search from your disk" anchor text to check the partition name.

Step 2. Find lost files after the scan

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac will immediately scan your Fusion disk partition and display the scanning results. You can filter the files through the file type and path.

Step 3. Recover files on the fusion drive

In the scan results, select the file(s) to preview. Then, click the "Recover" button to get them back.

Fix 2. Perform Fusion Disk Recovery with Time Machine Backup

If you have a backup of your Fusion Drive, you can recover data from the backup drive. It is a proactive method against any data loss disaster. Here is how you can restore a lost file from a Time Machine backup:

Step 1. Tap on the Apple logo from the upper-left corner and choose "System Preferences" from the drop-down menu.

Step 2. Open the Time Machine app and use the arrow to choose a point where your files still exist.

Step 3. Once you have located the files you want to recover, click the "Restore" button. This will transfer the file back to its previous place and restore the item.

Fix 3. Use Data Recovery Service to Recover Data from Fusion Drive

This solution would cost a lot. If you are using data recovery service, then you need to send both the storage media that comprise a Fusion Drive to the service provider. 

Extra Tips: How to Fix a Split Fusion Drive 

If the Fusion Drive appears as two in the Finder, you can continue using the two drives independently, or follow these steps to fix a split Fusion Drive.

👐Check whether there is a drive labeled as Fusion Drive.

• If there is, and you do not need to do anything
• If you see two drives (one with lower storage space and the other with higher). You need to create a single logical volume

2 - Create a Fusion Drive again.

Make sure that you have a backup before you start the steps below. Here we take macOS Mojave as an example.

Step 1: Turn on your Mac, press, and hold "Command-R" to start up from macOS Recovery. Release the keys when you see the Apple logo.

Step 2: Choose "Utilities > Terminal" from the menu bar.

Type diskutil resetFusion in the Terminal window, then press "Return".

Step 3: Type "Yes", then press "Return".

When Terminal indicates that the operation was successful, quit Terminal to return to the macOS utility window. Choose "Reinstall macOS", then follow the onscreen instructions to reinstall the Mac operating system. 

You will find that the Mac has created a Fusion Drive with reinstalled macOS and boots from the drive.

Final Words

If you want to recover data from fusion drive, you can first try restoring files from Time Machine backups. If you are not in the habit of backing up files, you can then try data recovery software like EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac or data recovery services.