By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
I was given a BitLocker encrypted external hard drive for making a year-end review with the collected data in it. Unfortunately, when I brought it home and was going to work overtime to complete the project, I found that it was unreadable on my Mac. My question: how to unlock BitLocker encrypted external hard drive on Mac?
If you want to open, access and unlock the BitLocker encrypted external hard drive on Mac, there are two options for you: Get a BitLocker for Mac tool on your Mac or Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant.
As is known to all, Microsoft makes it possible for users to encrypt external hard drive and USB with the password. It is said to be the most useful way to restrict others to get your data. But, for Mac users, any drive with BitLocker encryption is difficult to be read on macOS & Mac OS X. Now, with the help of BitLocker Genius, you can easily unlock BitLocker encrypted external hard drive and USB drive etc. on Mac. What's more, you can read and write the BitLocker drive smoothly.
In today's world, an external hard drive is often used to store the important data as a backup medium. So, in the above situation, why should you choose BitLocker Genius? First of all, this software thinks highly of your data and will not make any data at risk. It is 100% safe to download and use this program on Mac. Besides, BitLocker Genius enables you to transfer files from the drive to Mac or from Mac to the drive. It is convenient for you to manage the data in the BitLocker external hard drive on Mac. The last but not the least, it is extremely easy to unlock BitLocker drive. Everyone can handle this software in minutes.
Step 1: Download and install BitLokcer Genius on Mac
It is better to download BitLocker Genius on iSunshare official website. Then click iSunshareBitLockerGenius.pkg to install the software.
Step 2: Connect the external hard drive with the Mac laptop and run the software.
After your external hard drive is connected with the Mac laptop, you will get the pop-up window that says the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. You can ignore it. When you launch the software, you will see the hard drive has been detected by the software.
Step 3: Unlock BitLocker exteral hard drive on Mac
You should choose the hard drive with the "BitLocker" mask and click Unlock button on the toolbar. Only you choose the mount target, will the Mount button turn into Unlock button.
Step 4: Choose the method to unlock the drive.
Here the iSunshare BitLocker Genius offers you two methods to unlock the drive: the password and the recovery key file. Normally, the password option will be the first consideration. You just need to type the passwor for BitLocker hard drive and the drive is unlocked in minutes. There is no doubt that you can import the recovery file to unlock the drive if you keep a copy of it on your Mac laptop.
Step 5: Get the unlocked drive and manage the data.
In minutes, you can get the external hard drive unlocked on Mac laptop. After that, you can read the files on the drive and continue your year-end review with the data. Also, you can add/delete the files on the drive if you want to do in Windows.
With the help of Boot Camp on Mac, you can easily install Windows 10 on it and then switch to Windows after booting Mac. Then you can open, access and unlock your encrypted BitLocker drive for free. But this option is not as easy as the first option. In addition, it takes time in installing Windows 10 on your Mac.
Tutorial: How to Install Windows 10 on Mac
After Windows 10 is installed on your Mac, you can easily unlock BitLocker external drive as you do on Windows computer.
Tutorial: How to Unlock BitLocker Drives in Windows 10
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