[Solved] Is there a BitLocker equivalent for macOS & Mac OS X?

Posted by Tim to BitLocker for Mac Tips on October 9th, 2015

I'm used to be able to lock down all of my hard drives with Windows 7's BitLocker drive encryption system. I know that there is TrueCrypt as well, but I actually liked BitLocker better. What do you guys use for OS X? TrueCrypt also supports OSX, which is great, but I find the UI a bit disorganized. Is there anything else we can use for our Mac's to encrypt and password-protect our data, including everything from individual files to the entire hard drive?

You can still use BitLocker with following solution:

1. Create BitLocker encrypted drive on Windows Vista/7/8/10.

2. Read data from BitLocker encrypted drive on Mac computer with M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac.

3. Write new data to BitLocker encrypted drive on Mac computer with M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac.

BitLocker To Go for Mac: M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac is a BitLocker read/access tool which allows to read BitLocker encrypted drive on Mac computer and then copy files out from BitLocker encrypted drive to Mac computer's hard drive under macOS 11 (Big Sur), 10.15 (Catalina), 10.14 (Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (Sierra)‎ and Mac OS X since 10.8.

Tutorial to read BitLocker encrypted drive on Mac computer

Step 1: Download, install and launch M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac on your Mac computer.

Step 2: Insert a BitLocker encrypted drive

Step 3: Select BitLocker encrypted drive you want to read on Mac computer.

And then click "Open" icon to continue.

Step 4: Enter the password (or 48-digit BitLocker recovery key) and click "Unlock" to unlock BitLocker encrypted drive.

Step 5: View the files in BitLocker encrypted drive and then select the expected files in BitLocker encrypted drive and then copy them out.