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How can I recover the key of an encrypted hard-drive?
I still have access to the disc, but I lost the piece of paper with the key. Can I somehow recover it? I already had a look into Keychain Access Utility, but I couldn’t find it.
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Recover a deleted encrypted partition?
As my previous external HDD threw some disturbing SMART Warnings, I bought a new Hard Drive. It arrived earlier today, I formatted it and made some backups onto it at it has more space and I wanted to ...
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Disk Encryption on Mac PRO OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) running Apple RAID Drives
I have a Mac Pro (mid 2010) running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) with Apple Raid 1T drives and I am running VMware Fusion with Windows 7. FileVault will not install the disk encryption and PGP will ...
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Open an encrypted HDD/USB on Leopard?
Is it possible to access an external HDD or USB drive encrypted on Lion, through a Mac running Leopard?
In other words, is FileVault 2 encryption on volumes/partitions backwards compatible? (It ...
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Can I use an HFS+ usb disk with encryption enabled with a Time Capsule (2TB is mine)
I have a 2TB Time Capsule (version 7.6.1) and I want to connect a USB disk formatted as HFS+ with encryption enabled (on MAC OS X Mountain Lion). When I connect it directly to my iMac, it asks for a ...
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How to re-encrypt a decrypted partition that says “The Core Storage-targetvolume is already encrypted”?
I encrypted a Lion partition called "Storage" and it worked perfectly. I needed to decrypt it momentarily because I had some issues, but now I want to encrypt the same volume again and it says "The ...
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How can I mount an encrypted disk from the command line?
When I type diskutil mount disk3 in the terminal, it says Volume(s) mounted successfully. However, the disk is not mounted and I can confirm this by opening the GUI of Disk Utility.app and also the ...
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Lion doesn't mount encrypted disks anymore
I have several encrypted disks and all of a sudden Lion isn't mounting these disks anymore (it doesn't even asks for a password when I plug the disks). I have tested the disks on another Mac and they ...
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Is File Vault 2 whole disk encryption or whole partition encryption?
Can I use File Vault to encrypt only some of the partitions on my disk (so that I can still have unencrypted and Windows partitions on the same disk), or does File Vault encrypt the whole disk so that ...
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How to make an expanding compressed encrypted disk image?
I'd like the following setup:
A DMG file sits on my HD, taking up only the space of the contents, or perhaps only the space of the contents compressed.
If I double-click on it, I need to give a ...
