With different jobs on hand, you may need to work with two computers. And you might transmit files between them by a USB drive usually. As the USB drive contains many important files, you may want to encrypt it by BitLocker password on your Windows computer. But you hesitate to do it, because the BitLocker password protected USB drive can't be read on your other computer—Mac and then the transfer of data between your Windows PC and Mac will be impossible. Looking for a solution to help you get rid of the hesitation? iSunshare BitLocker Genius is a good solver for you, which can make you access the BitLocker password protected USB drive on your Mac easily and conveniently.
What's iSunshare BitLocker Genius?
iSunshare BitLocker Genius is the software which can help you realize the operation of reading and writing the BitLocker drive on your Mac immediately. It supports different kinds of drives, including USB flash drives, SD cards, external hard drives, MicroSD memory sticks, etc. Besides, it has an extra helpful feature which is opening the 'dmg' file on your Mac.
Easily Unlock Password Protected USB Drive on Mac
- Step 1: Download and install M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac. Free Download Mac Version. Step 2: Insert an external drive (such as external hard drive, USB drive, flash drive) into Mac computer. Step 3: Launch M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac. Step 4: Click 'Encrypt' button in toolbar. Step 5: Select the partition which you want to encrypt and click.
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1. Install iSunshare BitLocker Genius on your Mac
Download iSunshare BitLocker Genius and then install it on your Mac by following the step-by-step instruction of the installation window. When the installation is completed, the window in the following picture will be shown and you can tap Close button to close it.
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2. Connect the BitLocker Drive to your Mac
Before running iSunshare BitLocker Genius, you need to insert the BitLocker drive into your Mac firstly and then click Ignore option when a box is popped out to remind you that the drive wasn't readable.
3. Select the BitLocker Drive to Unlock
Open iSunshare BitLocker Genius. Then Choose the BitLocker drive in the interface and click Unlock button in the top panel.
4. Type your Password to Unlock the BitLocker Drive
Enter the BitLocker password in the frame of the pop-out window and hit Mount option in the lower right corner of the shown box.
Open Bitlocker Drive On Mac
5. Access the BitLocker Drive on your Mac Desktop
When the BitLocker drive is decrypted by its password successfully, its icon will be shown on your Mac desktop and you can access it now.
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Posted by Tim to BitLocker for Mac Tips on March 7th, 2019
Although Microsoft has not implemented BitLocker for macOS, but with the help of M3 BitLocker Loader, we can easily open/access BitLocker encrypted drive on macOS and encrypt external drive with BitLocker on macOS.
How to install and use BitLocker on macOS/Mac OS X?
Step 1: Download M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac to our Mac computer.
Step 2: After the download completes, double click the installation packpage to run it.
Step 3: Drag M3 BitLocker Loader to Applications folder.
How to enable BitLocker on macOS or Mac OS X?
Step 1: Launch M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac.
Step 2: Insert external drive (Such as USB drive, external hard drive) into our Mac computer, the file system of external drive must be NTFS, FAT32 or exFAT.
Step 3: Click 'Encrypt' button in toolbar.
Open Bitlocker On Mac
Step 4: Select the partition which you want to encrypt and click Encrypt.
Step 5: Enter the password.
Step 6: Save the recovery key.
Step 7: Complete BitLocker drive encryption.
After BitLocker drive encryption completes, you can use M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac to read/write BitLocker encrypted drive as a local drive on macOS/Mac OS X.
How to read/write BitLocker encrypted drive on macOS/Mac OS X?
Step 1: Launch M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac.
Step 2: Insert a BitLocker encrypted drive into our Mac computer.
Step 3: Select BitLocker encrypted volume and then click 'Open' icon to continue.
Step 4: Enter the password (or 48-digit BitLocker recovery key) and then click 'Unlock' to unlock BitLocker encrypted volume.
Step 5: After mounting BitLocker encrypted drive, we can read/write BitLocker encrypted drive on Mac.
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How to turn off BitLocker on macOS/Mac OS X?
There is no option to turn off BitLocker with M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac, but we can turn off BitLocker drive encryption from USB drive, external hard drive, thumb drive, etc. with following method:
Step 1: Back up the data stored in BitLocker encrypted drive.
Step 2: Open Applications folder, Utilities, Disk Utility.
Step 3: Select BitLocker encrypted drive in Disk Utility and then click Erase to reformat it.
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