Failed External Storage

My Iomega Ultramax external disk storage has failed with I believe a power supply problem. As this unit is out of warranty, I have replaced it. Here's the question, if I can get a suitable cable and attach directly to the two disks that were installed in the Ultramax, connect the other end to a USB port, I should be able to mount and read the contents of the disks. If I then pointed Time Machine at these drives I should be able to recover the data that is on there.
I'm just looking for support that this procedure is valid and should work?

r4sutton wrote:
My Iomega Ultramax external disk storage has failed with I believe a power supply problem. As this unit is out of warranty, I have replaced it. Here's the question, if I can get a suitable cable and attach directly to the two disks that were installed in the Ultramax, connect the other end to a USB port, I should be able to mount and read the contents of the disks. If I then pointed Time Machine at these drives I should be able to recover the data that is on there.
I'm just looking for support that this procedure is valid and should work?
I take it you can't get a new/replacement power supply?
But yes, if you can get OSX to recognize the disks, and their directories aren't damaged (do a +Repair Disk+ (not permissions) via Disk Utility, in your Applications/Utilities folder if they are), you should be able to recover the data. How you do that depends on what the data is:
If these are *source disks* (backed-up by Time Machine), when you get a new drive and want to restore to it from the backups, give the new disk a different name first. Then restore the entire drive to the new location. To see and restore from the backups for a drive that's no longer connected, see item #E3 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting post at the top of this forum.
Once you've located the folder representing the failed disk in your backups, select it, click the "gear" icon in the Finder window's toolbar, then select the +Restore <item> to ..+ option. Then specify the new drive as the destination.
Note that your next TM backup will almost certainly back up the entire contents of the new drive. You cannot prevent this. That will, of course, take a lot of space on your TM drive, so you might want to delete all backups of the old disk, via the procedure in item 12 of the Frequently Asked Questions post at the top of this forum.
If these are *TM backups,* you can't copy them to a new drive in the normal fashion and have them continue to work with Time Machine. You can use the Restore tab of Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to duplicate one entire disk or partition to another entire disk/partition. (You can also use the SuperDuper! app). This will preserve the unusual structure of the backups, and TM should continue backing-up to them as if nothing had happened.
Three cautions: First, be sure you format the new disk correctly (see item #5 in the Frequently Asked Questions post at the top of this forum.
Second, you must check the +Erase destination+ box when you do the Restore, even if the destination is already empty (so you'll erase the directory that's on even an empty disk).
Third, this procedure will rename the destination partition the same as the source, so immediately upon completion, rename one of them, and change or re-select the new one via TM Preferences.

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