By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
BitLocker is a disk encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows since Windows Vista. As BitLocker doesn't have a built-in backdoor, it is so secure for all of us to use it. What's more, it's free. But in some cases, we are unable to access a Windows computer. Under such circumstances, it is feasible to open it on a Mac as well. To do that, we have to mount BitLocker encrypted drive in macOS/Mac OS X for the first step.
As we all know, Mac computer cannot identify a BitLocker encrypted drive. Hence, we need to utilize a third-party tool like iSunshare BitLocker Genius to unlock and mount the drive. Besides, we must have a correct password or recovery key. Otherwise, your BitLocker encrypted drive cannot mount to Mac computer.
Here are several steps to mount/unmount BitLocker encrypted drive with iSunshare BitLocker Genius.
Step 1: Download and install the iSunshare BitLocker Genius on Mac.
Step 2: Insert the BitLocker drive and click on Ignore if it shows you "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" error.
Step 3: Choose the BitLocker partition and click on Unlock.
Step 4: Type your password and click on Mount button to mount BitLocker drive. After that, we can open, read, write the BitLocker drive normally. When you forgot the BitLocker password, you can choose Use recovery key then click on Open button to unlock BitLocker drive on Mac.
Step 5: If you don't need to use the drive, you can click the Unmount button as the image shows below to unmount it.
Once you have lost BitLocker drive password and recovery key, you can format it if the data inside is not very important to you. And here comes an interesting question: can I recover data from formatted BitLocker encrypted drive? No! Everything will lost even with the help of data recovery tool. When you use BitLocker to protect a drive, you'd better backup your password or recovery key to iCloud, Microsoft account, OneDrive, etc. In this way, iSunshare BitLocker Genius can help you unlock, mount and open BitLocker protected drive on Mac without losing data.
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