By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
BitLocker is a powerful and effective encryption method to protect the data of a disk, but it will be better if the USB stick with BitLocker can be accessed on Mac. When you want to save a file of your Mac to the BitLocker USB stick, the operation will be interrupted by a pop-out box which tells you that the disk is unreadable. At that time, what can you do to complete the operation? Here you will learn how to remove BitLocker from the USB stick on Mac.
Generally, you can access the BitLocker USB stick on Mac by removing BitLocker from the USB stick via formatting. However, this way will erase the data in the USB stick. Therefore, besides the way-formatting the BitLocker USB stick, we will also introduce another effective way for you to open the BitLocker USB stick on Mac without data loss here.
Formatting the BitLocker USB stick will erase the data of it. If the BitLocker USB stick is just used to be the medium of transmitting files between your computers or you have backed up the data of it, you could try this way.
Step 1: Insert the BitLocker USB stick into your Mac and click Ignore button on the unreadable disk window.
Step 2: Go to the Disk Utility and select the BitLocker USB stick in the left panel of the window. Then hit Erase option on the top menu of the interface.
Step 3: Name the BitLocker USB stick, choose MS-DOS(FAT) in the drop-down menu of Format option and Master Boot Record in the Scheme bar. After that, tap Erase button to run the operation.
Step 4: After the operation is finished, the BitLocker protection of the USB stick is disabled and you can open and use it now.
When you want to open your BitLocker USB stick on your Mac without data loss, you need to choose a third-party tool--iSunshare BitLocker Genius, which is an easy-to-use and professional BitLocker unlocker for Mac. Highly recommended this way to all of you!
Step 1: Download iSunshare BitLocker Genius and then install it on your Mac. After that, you can connect the BitLocker USB stick to your Mac and hit Ignore option when a small window is shown to remind you that the disk wasn't readable.
Step 2: Run iSunshare BitLocker Genius and the BitLocker USB stick will be displayed on its interface after detection. Then choose the BitLocker USB stick and tap Unlock button.
Step 3: Select a way in the pop-out window with 2 unlock paths. It's convenient for you to unlock your the USB stick with its password. Or you can import BitLocker recovery file to unlock it. Next, click Mount option to unlock the BitLocker USB stick.
Step 4: When the BitLocker USB stick's icon is shown on your Mac desktop, it means that the BitLocker USB stick is decrypted successfully and you can access the USB stick by double clicks and save the file to it now.
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