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As is known to all, BitLocker To Go is a program (bitlockertogo.exe) which runs on Windows computers. This program can help you encrypt the removable data drives, including the USB flash drives, SD cards, external hard disk drives, and other drives formatted by using NTFS, FAT32 or exFAT file systems. It is easy for the users to open and read the content of removable drives that have been protected with BitLocker Drive Encryption in Windows.
Is there any way for Mac users to open USB flash drive or external hard drive which is encrypted by BitLocker To Go? Yes, here comes the BitLocker To Go reader replacer for macOS/Mac OSX: iSunshare BitLocker Genius, which enables users to open/access/decrypt/mount/unlock BitLocker encrypted removable devices on macOS 10.12/10.13/10.14 and Mac OSX 10.7/10.8/10.9/10.10/10.11.
Notes: To read and write BitLocker encrypted removable devices on Mac, you need to have the right BitLocker password or the original recovery key file. At the same time, it is necessary for you to make sure the BitLocker encrypted drive is healthy.
Step 1: Download and install iSunshareBitLockerGenius.pkg program on your Mac computer. You need to ensure that you have at least 10 MB free storage on your computer.
Step 2: Connected your removable devices with the Mac computer and launch the program. Here, you will get the error message “the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer”. You can click Ignore to continue. At this time, your drive is detected by the software and listed with “bitlocker” mark. Click the drive and choose the Unlock button.
Step 3: In the following interface, there are two ways for you to open and read the BitLocker drive. The simplest one is to enter the password and click Mount button. But if you forgot the right password, you can take advantage of the backup recovery key file to decrypt the drive.
Step 4: Open/read/write the removable drives on Mac. As is shown on the interface, there is an unlocked drive detected by the software. On Mac desktop, you can find this drive and open it to read/write the contents. If needed, you can copy and share the contents in your way.
If you want to exit the reading of this drive, you can click the Eject of the software. After that, your removable drive will be unreadable and you can remove it safely.
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