First of all, this needs a (2016) tag. Would an exact duplicate of the existing working drive, maybe done with dd, help with this? Maybe some Metadata from the

First of all, this needs a (2016) tag. Would an exact duplicate of the existing working drive, maybe done with dd, help with this? Maybe some Metadata from the drive layout would have to be changed, too. Other than this workaround, it seems that ZFS could be changed to allow an import again. Has this been changed in recent years?