This gets into the different formats the drive has. Apple was using HFS+ for a long time and with the intro of High Sierra SSD’s were migrated to a newer format called APFS. In addition to the file system change Apple also modified the systems firmware so APFS drives could be booted. There is also the issue of the connection SATA vs PCIe.Which can mess you up as well.
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This gets into the different formats the drive has. Apple was using HFS+ for a long time and with the intro of High Sierra SSD’s were migrated to a newer format called APFS. In addition to the file system change Apple also modified the systems firmware so APFS drives could be booted. There is also the issue of the connection SATA vs PCIe. Which can mess you up as well.
Now the fun part… When you used the SSD internally you also likely enabled encryption so when you took the drive out and put it into a case the interface logic being different invalidated the encryption.
The other possibility here is the iPad you are using is expecting a still different format exFAT or FAT32 as that is what the older iPads support. Again you can encounter issues moving the drive between systems as the iPad won’t work with APFS. Some vendors made special drives for iPad backup via the Lightning connector. The newer iPad Pro with USB-C is setup to work with external drives running all four formats.
I don’t see an easy answer trying to recover the data.
Ouch! Not good.
This gets into the different formats the drive has. Apple was using HFS+ for a long time and with the intro of High Sierra SSD’s were migrated to a newer format called APFS. In addition to the file system change Apple also modified the systems firmware so APFS drives could be booted. There is also the issue of the connection SATA vs PCIe.Which can mess you up as well.
Now the fun part… When you used the SSD internally you also likely enabled encryption so when you took the drive out and put it into a case the interface logic being different invalidated the encryption.
The other possibility here is the iPad you are using is expecting a still different format exFAT or FAT32 as that is what the older iPads support. Again you can encounter issues moving the drive between systems as the iPad won’t work with APFS. Some vendors made special drives for iPad backup via the Lightning connector. The newer iPad Pro with USB-C is setup to work with external drives running all four formats.
I don’t see an easy answer trying to recover the data.