Why need Bitlocker for Mac?
Many cross platform users realize the data security so that they encrypted USB drive, flash drive, external hard drive, SD card, etc. with Bitlocker to protect their important data.
However, a prompt error message is received: The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer with three buttons (Initialize, Ignore, Eject) after inserting a Bitlocker drive into your Mac computer and you cannot open/access Bitlocker encrypted drive.
Microsoft only released Bitlocker for Windows version and has not implemented Bitlocker for Mac version, so macOS and Mac OS X cannot recognize Bitlocker drive encryption so that you cannot open Bitlocker encrypted drive on your Mac without the 3rd party tool.
Bitlocker for Mac
With GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) now in full force, you have to make your drives being encrypted. Bitlocker is the most truely secure encryption built-in Windows. Although Microsoft has not implemented Bitlocker for Mac, but Bitlocker is compatible with macOS by using M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac, it makes using BitLocker for Mac a seamless experience.
M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac is a simple-to-use Bitlocker for Mac app which can unlock, open Bitlocker encrypted drive and enable to read/write Bitlocker encrypted drive on Mac after supplying the password or recovery key.
M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac can also encrypt the external drive so that the drive is protected by Bitlocker and secure your important data.
Bitlocker for Mac features
Read Bitlocker encrypted drive on Mac
Enter the password or recovery key to unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive on Mac and then transfer files from the Bitlocker encrypted drive to your Mac computer.
Once the files leave from the Bitlocker encrypted drive, they won't be protected by BitLocker any more.
Write to Bitlocker encrypted drive on Mac
Enter the password or recovery key to unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive on Mac and then write to Bitlocker encrypted drive, such as modify, edit, delete files, add new files, rename.
Bitlocker will automatically encrypt these files to prevent the unauthorized access once they are written to the Bitlocker encrypted drive.
Mount Bitlocker encrypted drive on Mac
Enter the password or recovery key, mount Bitlocker encrypted drive in read-write or read-only mode. After mounting Bitlocker encrypted drive on Mac, you can operate this mounted drive like a Mac computer's native drive.
Use Bitlocker to encrypt external drive on Mac
Bitlocker drive encryption can be used to encrypt USB drive, flash drive, external hard drive, thumb drive, etc. (Requires FAT32, NTFS, exFAT file system) on macOS/Mac OS X, refer to How to encrypt USB flash drive with Bitlocker on Mac?
How Bitlocker for Mac works?
1. A healthy Bitlocker encrypted drive is required: If Bitlocker encrypted drive has been corrupted, please try Bitlocker data recovery software: M3 Bitlocker Recovery to recover data from corrupted Bitlocker encrypted drive.
2. Have the correct password or 48-digit recovery key: It will be used to unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive on your Mac computer. If the password and recovery key are unknown or lost, M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac cannot break into your Bitlocker encrypted drive, but you can unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive without password and recovery key using the 3rd-pary professional Bitlocker password brute-force cracking software, such as Passware, Elcomsoft.
3. The file system of external drive must be NTFS, FAT32 or FAT32: If the file system of external drive is other type, please back up the important data firstly, format the external drive to NTFS/FAT32/exFAT and then try M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac.
How to unlock, open, read, write Bitlocker drive on Mac?
Step 1: Free download, install and launch M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac on your Mac computer.
Step 2: Connect the Bitlocker encrypted drive (USB drive, flash drive, SD card, memory cad, USB stick, thumb drive, external hard drive, etc.) to your Mac computer.
If you are using macOS Catalina, please open System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access > Allow M3 Bitlocker Loader.
Step 3: After inserting the Bitlocker encrypted drive into your Mac computer, please choose "Ignore" if you receive message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. There are three buttons: Initialize, Ignore, Eject".
Step 4: Click the Bitlocker encrypted drive in M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac.
Step 5: Enter the password (or recovery key) to unlock Bitlocker drive.
If you lost the password and recovery key, M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac cannot break into Bitlocker encrypted drive and access data, please refer to how to unlock Bitlocker drive without password and recovery key?
Step 6: Click "Unlock" button to unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive and then the Bitlocker encrypted drive will be mounted in read-write mode. After mounting Bitlocker encrypted drive, the Bitlocker encrypted drive will be automatically opened, you can operate the mounted Bitlocker encrypted drive like a Mac's native drive, such as read, write, edit, delete, modify, rename, etc.
Step 7: After reading/writing the Bitlocker encrypted drive, please click "Lock" button in M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac home window to lock the Bitlocker encrypted drive.
Step 8: Click "Eject" button in M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac home window to safely eject it from Mac computer, please don't directly unplug the Bitlocker encrypted drive from your Mac computer in case of data loss, it is very important.
How to use Bitlocker to encrypt external drive on Mac?
Step 1: Free download, install and launch M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac on your Mac computer (Bitlocker drive encryption requires macOS 10.11 and above OS).
Step 2: Connect the external drive (USB drive, flash drive, SD card, thumb drive, pen drive, USB stick, external hard drive, requires NTFS/FAT32/exFAT file system) to your Mac computer.
Step 3: Click Encrypt button in toolbar of M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac and M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac will list the storage devices.
Step 4: Click Encrypt button located at the right side of the specific external drive.
Step 5: Enter the password (It is used to encrypt the external drive and then unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive later).
Step 6: Save the recovery key (It is used to unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive if you forget the password).
Step 7: Complete Bitlocker drive encryption on the external drive.
Pietro Desiato
2019-08-14 05:10:56
This is the only software that allows me to unlock my drive on my Mac. It's easy to use and gets the job done!
Anonymous
2019-07-16 23:02:35
I have a couple of hard drives encrypted with Bitlocker and M3 Bitlocker Loader works well on my iMac.
James Cobb
2019-04-29 21:02:05
I just wanted to send a thank you to you guys for developing this software.My wife's school computer lost something in the windows files and started to fail to boot properly. She is in charge of some critical projects and had not backed up active files she was working on. I was able to use the OSX Bitlocker utility to unlock the drive (with help from the schools IT) and mount it to my Mac and viola we had her files back. This was so easy to use and it just worked wonderfully. Thank you guys all so much for the work you put into it.
Raymond Kanowitz
2018-10-25 06:24:45
M3 Bitlocker for Mac is the perfect cross platform solution for mac and windows encrypted drives, Bitlocker encrypted drive is mounted like a normal drive once it was unlocked.
Jayson Millson
2018-07-18 06:25:33
I cannot put into words how thankful I am, for having found and used your service. I will highly recommend your software to anyone in the same situation.