Issues of encryption on external drive

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• Is there a way to recover the EFS encrypted files stored on an external drive without the origianl certificate?

  Is there a way to recover the EFS encrypted files stored on an external drive without the original of the certificate?

  I had photos/files stored on an external drive and have been encrypted with EFS in XP. The main drive crashed, all keys have been lost. Got a new main drive, installed the new OS and now can't access encrypted files.

  Unless you can retrieve parts of your old drive or have a backup of your encryption certificate, you have probably lost all of your encrypted data.  Recovery agents work only if they are in place when the file/folder is initially encrypted.  A program like AEFSDR might be able to resurrect your old certificate from your old drive if it is readable at all.  If you plan to use EFS in the future, make sure you read the following article the court - particularly paragraph entitled "why you should back up your certificates.

  "Best practices for EFS file system.
    <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/223316 >

  HTH,
  JW

• I encrypted my external hard drive with bit locker, now how to decrypt after reinstalling windows 7

  Original title: Bit Locker question!

  I encrypted my external hard drive with bit locker, I had just installed windows 7 ultimate, I found in a hurry I have does not support for 7 and decided to reformat and to return to my pro victory, I did and when I plugged my external in my cp asked if I wanted to format my external , that's when I realized in my haste I forgot to decipher my outside, so my Q should I do to decipher my external or I'm out of luck?

  Hello

  See the bottom of the articles that might help you.

  Learn more about BitLocker Drive encryption
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/learn-more-about-BitLocker-Drive-encryption
  Guide step by step for Windows 7 BitLocker Drive encryption
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd835565 (WS.10) .aspx

• Share iTunes media to external drive issues

  I think I know 'how' to do it, but have a question about what happens if I go this way.

  Background:

  Set up a new iMac and put our music on an external drive.  I have my card to the library user account using 'alt' / find the process of the library.

  Now, I have separate accounts for my wife and two children and want their iTunes using the same media.

  Home sharing works fine if the computer is on and that I'm connected, but this isn't an ideal solution for us.  It seems, as I use the 'alt' / find the process of the library for each account and it should work, although I understand that a single user can use the library at some point.  That shouldn't be a problem for the way in which we use our computer.

  Now, assuming that the process works, my question - for those who did, here's my question: each user customizable yet their use of iTunes to their liking?  More important still everyone can customize what gets synchronized on their devices (phone/iPad)?

  Thanks in advance if I understand how the library file that iTunes creates works with the application.

  Hey jjtrindc,

  If I understand correctly, you want to know how you can use multiple iOS devices and with your new iMac iTunes libraries. The article below describes several options, as set up multiple user accounts, the timing of specific content or the creation of separate iTunes libraries.

  How to use several devices iPhone, iPad or iPod with a computer - Apple Support

  In addition, this article provides information about the transfer and management of your iTunes library:

  Manage and backup your iTunes media library - Apple Support

  Ciao.

• Formatting the external drive

  I have an external multi-interface (USB 2.0, eSATA, FW800) I formatted to NTFS on a guest Windows XP SP3 running under Fusion 3.1.3 on my 10.6.8 Mac (connected to the VM with USB at the time).  So far, the virtual machine that I used for formatting my Mac and another machine as physical under XP SP3 all recognize the format of this player and can access the files that I copied to it.

  An another physical XP SP3 PC recognizes the drive but seems this computer as not formatted.  On the PC that does not recognize formatting, I tried the eSATA and USB interfaces.  Can anyone suggest what might be happening in this situation?  The news only that I found on Windows behaves in this way has proposed to change the drive letter to another value so I changed the drive letter in virtual and physical machine that I have problems with.  This is apparently a specific modification of the machine because it comes with the drive letter original on the physical machine that will read as one who does not see the formatting (e.g., the change did not).  The virtual machine sees as the new drive letter.

  Even a suggestion of what might happen would be appreciated.  The physical machine that can not see the formatting has consulted other external drives in the past (will check that it is again tonight).  This machine had MacDrive installed for about 4 or 5 months now and it's the first behavior like that I pointed out (I have access to a Mac OS volume extended without problem on this machine while I have problems with this particular NTFS drive).

  Thanks in advance for any information on how to understand what is happening with this machine and this drive.

  Well, now you have partitioned/formatted with utility disk and its functioning, I guess it will have to remain a mystery because we can't examine the disc as it was partitioned/formatted on the problematic system.

  I ran into similar situations and what I've done in the past is to wipe the drive with zeros and then partition/format it then start the system using GParted Live and it provides generally that nothing funky is written based on the peculiarities of the different systems of the car is moved.

  Over the years, I've seen enough issues when non-native file system support has been added and or encryption is added too and I do not put much faith in all them play well together and for this reason avoid implementation of management of the file system not natives and modes when possible or.  If I do, it is usually done in a Virtual Machine in order to keep the host as clean and native as possible.  Or when their implementation natively do on my system out of production.

• WD My Passport drive external drive will not mount once my Macbook Pro is already on

  Hello

  I actually had this problem for a year or two, but I'm finally getting bugged to this topic enough to see if it can be 'fixed '.

  I have a 2 to WD My Passport portable HD connected to my macbook pro via an external (wall outlet) powered TRUST 5 x USB3 Hub.  If everything is connected, when I start the macbook pro there is no problem and the WD My Passport is mounted in the finder.  But if I remove manually the hard drive and then try to mount it again while the macbook pro is running it doesn't mount not.  It used to, but he won't now.

  In the past the WD My passport would need to unplug and perhaps the USB3 hub would need power cable disconnect from him and the USB hubs out the macbook pro.  So when I joined this new and plugged the hard drive WD in the hub, it would rise very well.  But now it's just point blank refuses to ride until I restart the macbook pro.  Once I restart it it climbs perfectly and stays up forever--until it is dismantled manually - and then I have to restart the macbook pro again so he could mount once more.

  I tried all combinations of pull cables and adapters to power but nothing has worked.  After dismantling the WD hd and plug back on the USB3 light led on the hub hub lights up and the hard drive turns manually, but, as I say, it is not mount and it is not visible in disk utility.

  Any ideas please?  It's a bit annoying to have to keep restarting the mac whenever I had to unplug the hard drive WD.

  "As issued" WD Passport appear to cause a number of reports of trouble around here. You have already taken the first "not best" - using a powered hub. Just make sure that the hub is really power (lights on, for example). It could be that the external drive is in its death throws.

  This happen if the WD is the only thing on the powered hub?

  The Mac USB ports work with other devices?

  Here's what my experience with these things has believing me. WD made great bare discs, but I can't be so kind to their pens. Three questions:

  (1) I think that they should use chipsets which are not very easy to Mac.

  (2) most driving the ship formatted for Windows

  (3) even those shipped as "Mac editions have some odd which makes it difficult to access file formatting.

  If you do not have to share the drive with a Windows computer, you can reformat the drive and that often fixes "fail to mount/recognize" question. Disk utility is your tool of choice here because it is already installed on your Mac. Completely erase the WD drive by selecting the tab 'Clear' in the bar tabs to disk utility. Define the plan of Partition to GUID Partition map and journaled for Mac extended format. Press the button 'clear '. The reader will now will be rid of eccentric WD partitioning and formatting schemes and be a good Mac hard drive.

  If you share the road with a Windows computer, consider getting a better workout. After having fought external drives 'brand' on my computers and others that I maintain, I now use only boxes of other computer world with naked WD drives inside. Since this change, I have zero problems. For my MacBook Pro, I use this forum:

  https://eShop.MacSales.com/item/OWC/MEPMU3ES/

  I ordered the external power optionally for use at home and go on the road bus-powered. It's an empty envelope - just a hard drive of nu. They are more expensive than the stuff that Staples puts on sale every weekend, but are much more reliable. I ask the question. "What is my value data?"

• the guest account can access encrypted USB flash drive?

  So here's the scenario

  I encrypted an external usb flash drive.  If I have access to this USB key, enter my password, decrypt the USB key. then close the session,

  and go to access as a guest (ALWAYS logged IN MY ACCOUNT) so that the family can use my computer,

  What happens to someone else, they can access the flash drive which has been deciphered from my account?

  should not the external drive is accessible to the account, that it has been deciphered?

  Once the drive is mounted (enabling access through decryption as well) is accessible to all users.

• External drive Stor.E Art 3 - How to apply for data protection?

  Hello!

  I recently bought Stor.E Art 3 external drive - mostly because there were lines like 'Encryption' and 'Password protected'

  So, how can I ask these things on the external drive? I imagined, that there is a kind of software which just request password each time I connect the HDD to PC...

  But there was no software other than NTI Backup Now EZ. This backup software will do this thing?

  Otherwise its disinformation user :(

  Have you checked manual as well as additional software features?
  I mean, we should describe how it works.

• Drive external DRIVE will not mount after resizing in Windows

  Hi all

  I got a 1 TB external drive that I used for a while about 10 Windows and OSX (El Capitan). I had two partitions Configuration for use on every platform without any problems.

  Then, I needed extra space on the Windows partition, so I think that, if I remember correctly, that I've resized using the disk management tool in Windows. I reduced the OSX volume and increased the size of the Windows volume. I can probably hear you all shout now.

  Surprise, my volume OSX will now not mount when I run in El Capitan. It does not show in disk utility, and the only way to 'see' it is using diskutil:

  Output: Diskutil list

  / dev/disk2 (external, physical):

  #:                       TYPE      NAME                                                            SIZE        IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * 1.0 TB disk2

  1:                       EFI EFI                                                                         209.7 MB  disk2s1

  2: 000100AF-4028-0006-2192-BA7200000000 650,3 GB disk2s2

  3: 000100AF-7220-70FB-2192-BA7200000000 23.7 GB disk2s3

  4: Apple_HFS Install OS X Yosemite 5.7 GB disk2s4

  Output: Diskutil list cs

  CoreStorage groups of logical volumes (1 found)

  |

  + Logical Volume - Group DD8EBA77-8349-4762-BD32-4D45402DDE23

  =========================================================

  Name: Macintosh HD

  Status: online

  Dimensions: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)

  Free space: 12656640 B (12.7 MB)

  |

  +-< physical="" volume="">

  |   ----------------------------------------------------

  |   Index: 0

  |   Disc: disk0s2

  |   Status: online

  |   Dimensions: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)

  |

  + -> 70EB98AB-5D10-4774-89C9-F66D334A7BA0 family of Logical Volume

  ----------------------------------------------------------

  Type of encryption: AES - XTS

  Encryption status: unlocked

  The conversion status: complete

  High level queries: secure

  |                        Password required

  |                        Accepts new users

  |                        A visible users

  |                        At the Volume key

  |

  +-> Logical Volume BEE2BAE7-909A-42F8-91F1-55085485904A

  ---------------------------------------------------

  Disc: disk1

  Status: online

  Size (Total): 120108089344 B (120.1 GB)

  Reversible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)

  Put the situation: Restart required

  Name: Macintosh HD

  Volume name: Macintosh HD

  Content indicator: Apple_HFS

  Output: TPG - vv - r sudo show/dev/disk2

  See the TPG: / dev/disk2: mediasize = 1000204886016; SectorSize = 512; blocks = 1953525168

  See the TPG: / dev/disk2: MBR suspicious to sector 0

  See the TPG: / dev/disk2: Pri GPT to sector 1

  See the TPG: / dev/disk2: GPT Sec at sector 1953525167

  start index size summary

  0           1         MBR

  1 1 Pri GPT header

  2 32 table GPT Pri

  34 6

  40 409600 1 part TPG - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

  409640 1270198464 2 part TPG - 000100AF-4028-0006-2192-BA7200000000

  1270608104 624918840

  1895526944 46298496 3 part TPG - 000100AF-7220-70FB-2192-BA7200000000

  1941825440 262144

  1942087584 11175400 4 part TPG - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  262151 1953262984

  1953525135 32 table dry GPT

  1953525167 1 dry GPT header

  Output from: sudo fdisk/dev/disk2

  Disk: geometry / dev/disk2: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]

  Signature: 0xAA55

  From end

  #: cyl hd s - cyl hd s id [Start - size]

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  1: EA 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1-409639]

  2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [409640-1270198464] HFS +.

  3: 1023 254 63 AF-1023 254 63 [1895526944-46298496] HFS +.

  04:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

  #2 partition is my concern. It contains my library, iPhoto and other important pieces.

  So, is anyway that I can get it back? What can I do to try to preserve its data? Thank you very much! Chris

  It comes out by any other command that could help someone point me in the right direction to solve this? Thank you

• L750 satellite fails to record the external DRIVE of 1 TB as a HARD disk drive

  Hello

  I wonder if anyone can help with this problem?
  Please excuse the absence of computer terminology!

  I have a Toshiba Satellite L750/l755 (don't remember which) and my external hard drive recently failed to register as a reader. (Samsun Story Book 1 TB)

  For more than a year, it has worked without problem.
  Now, when I turn it on, it shows momentarily as a reader, even to the point of show files that it contained.

  If I'm fast enough, I can even open one of the folders, but then the reference of the car goes with everything, and I receive a notice indicating that 'G' refers to a drive that does not exist.

  Shows Device Manager hard drive external, and all, apparently, allegedly, works fine! I tried to assign a different drive letter, but nothing happens.

  My laptop accepts there is a reader connected, but fails to save it as a reader!

  I tried to use Knoppix to see if that could access it, but can't find where to change the bios to boot from the disk!

  I am at my wits end because I'm to halfway through writing a book and everything is stored on the outside! (Yes, I know now! "It is not safe to do!)

  Please can anyone suggest a solution?

  Thank you very much in anticipation.
  Alec.

  > I tried to use Knoppix to see if that could access it, but can't find where to change the bios to boot from the disk!
  While turn on the power, press F12 to get a menu where you can change the boot device.
  Then you should be able to boot from the CD from Knoppix (or other Live bootable drive)

  But have you tried to connect this drive external DRIVE on another computer?
  In my view the issue looks like problem with HARD drive and no system or laptop issue.

• Should what format I use for my external drive for time machine?  I have a WD 2 TB that is formatted for PC new drive.

  Should what format I use for my external drive for time machine?  I have a WD 2 TB that is formatted for PC new drive.  When I got to disk utilities to erase, and then reformat the options are

  1 mac OS extended (journaled)

  2 mac OS extended (journaled, encrypted)

  3 mac OS Extended (respect for case-sensitive, journaled)

  4 mac OS extended (case-sensitive, journaled, encrypted)

  See the information below If you can not back up or restore your Mac with the help of Time Machine - Apple Support

  When you select a drive to use with Time Machine, your Mac automatically prompts you if you need to reformat the drive.

  • If you are using an external drive connected to your Mac, use disk utility to make sure that your backup disk is formatted in HFS + extended (journaled) and is the partition type GUID Partition Table (GPT).
  • If you use a time Capsule, formatting the drive for Time Machine preferences automatically formats the drive as HFS + Extended (respect for case-sensitive, journaled) with a GUID Partition Table (GPT).

• Fixing of SSDS as external drive

  Hey,.

  I own a 2012 MacBook pro with SSD. Last year I had a problem with my SSD SATA cable (the Mac showed gray

  screen with a question mark and after reading this forum, I discovered that the cable is often a source of this kind of problems). After replacing the cable, everything worked fine.

  I am now faced with a new issue where the Mac has become suddenly very slow, showing a spinning wheel, 95% of the time.

  (1) is it possible that it's still once caused by the SATA cable? Memory, CPU utilization, everything seems fine. A turning almost endless wheel can be caused by a bad SATA cable? (Maybe since IOs to SSD taking too long).

  (2) in order to check the number of cable, I connect the SSD drive via USB as an external drive. Can I detach the SSD at the jury, connect it via the external USB adapter and start the Mac? That will just work "out of the box"? Or do I somehow configure the external SSD first?

  Thank you

  AVI

  Assuming that it is one of the 2012 with a removable SATA models, it is possible, it is again the same problem, but I would start more generally...

  To solve this, please see hosting the  poster forum and also see my ad in another recent thread what to try and what to post here.  Safe mode and the Console.app and activity Monitor.app and related controls will provide a view of what is happening here, and if it is related to the connection of disc or not.   Etrecheck can also display errors that arise here and you can try hardware diagnostics and see what those report.

• Best practices for storage and backups on internal and external drives

  Hello

  I have a Mac laptop and I would like your advice on how to organize the storage of files on internal and external drives and how optimizes it the backup plan.

  From now on, my organization of file storage is:

  I keep my most important files on the internal disk of SSD encrypted and less critical files on an encrypted external drive (format ExFAT). This external hard drive was errors, so I bought a new Laetitia 2 Tb drive that I formatted in Mac OS journaled with encryption instead of ExFAT, to replace.

  For backups, I do not use Time Machine, but I use an application that synchronizes files between two disks. By using this application, I first sync the essential document on the SSD files internal to the external drive, and then I synchronize all the external drive to another external drive.

  My question is, if I keep this Organization of file storage or I should, for example just move all my files, critical and non-critical for the internal SSD (I could make enough room for that) and then backup up the whole Mac with Time Machine? Or there is a better way to organize files in this scenario?

  The second question is, if it is better to keep the Organization as it split storage (internal, less critical on external criticism) is what would be the best way to back up everything?

  Thanks in advance for all contributions.

  First of all, to the ExFAT is the problem, I suggest that the reader will just physically hurt.  ExFAT is perfectly acceptable as a format where Mac and PC can read/write.  You may have reacted a little leaving ExFAT for HFS, but you have made your choice and adapts to it.

  Here is how I operate my backups:

  I use CCC (CarbonCopyClone, $40, bombich.com).  It copies the boot sectors, drive, mapping, recovery Partition (these three are 'invisible' to DiskUtility for most) as well as system partitions and data records 'other'.  These other disks may be internal for clone-to-test-new-OSX in multi-disc systems or external for backup purposes.  The beauty is that you can start an external clone in a system crash, then CCC will be re - copy the active external clone on a new/fixed internal drive.

  Encryption isn't something I know, but... If only the content of the system partition and data is encrypted, it * could * be OK for clone-back to partition-as-encrypted partitions.  If you clone internal external the external partition is active and copy the 'encrypted plan', while small adjustments are made so that the race could be bad.  Copy of the files on my partitions unencrypted change interrupt because they are individual files.

  As an alternative, you could have a system drive that does CCC charge, let the clone encrypted and encrypted internal idle and just copy the entire map with the 'third system' active.

• Unable to download a driver for an external drive Seagate - ST3160318AS.

  My PC Device Manager recognizes the newly installed hardware, install a driver but all attempts have failed. No installation CD is provided with this unit. I am inclined to believe the necessary software pre-installed, but the reader will show it, or give it up.
  The diagnostic analysis results indicate that all is well with the drive. It recently bought [yesterday] 'External Drive' sits like a useless piece with her running light 'on' and unusable for the lack of a "Driver".

  THANK YOU EVERYONE IN MY ABOVE DILEMMA - please read on:

  After reading a lot of articles and messages from the Forum on this issue, as well as information provided by the seller, I discovered the main cause of my pain was "Malware" by the name of "RESEARCH of CLARO", who himself had included in my browser and taken control through it's own 'Toolbar '. I also quite false information on the hard drive of my PC through many "blue screens". Now, I understand the import of the term 'Blue Screen of Death'.

  I was unable to uninstall this rogue program that he was not on my list of "Add/Remove Programs". Nor can it be found anywhere on my OS' it Drive in the lists of Documents and settings or Program Files. I stayed at loss as to how to remove the malicious program until I came across a list of my 'Cookies' PC on which were four entries that included "Claro". As soon as these have been removed, my computer is back to character, recognized the Seagate external hard drive and the appropriate screen is appeared on the screen after that was revealed the "dashboard" which allowed for the programming of the backup of 13.3 GB of data on the internal drive which eventually ended without incident.

  So, now, all right and if I never see Claro again it must be too early.

  Thank you, Ray.

  HDS most don't require software and drivers, if USB connected, and then try to update

  youre chipset software/drivers, this includes USB with it... In addition, you are in the hd's

  probably installed ok, you just need to get xp to run with him. To do this, go

  to run, type: diskmgmt.msc

  MSC, locate the hd, R.click on the space next to him (in black), select: create

  a partition, follow the instructions in the wizard. Once her thru, R.click on the hard drive, select: Format

  Follow the Wizard (using the default settings). Once her thru, L.click hard disk, go to

  actions, all, search & select "make active", once through, you are, out msc...

• Data encrypted on the drive from the PC 'death '.

  My old PC is dead (suspect grilled motherboard) I removed the hard drive and bought a unit to connect external drive. It is recognized by my laptop and some files are recognized and can be opened but I have two files of documents that are protected by word (separate passwords that I have) and I can't access it. Have tried to configure mirror on laptop user accounts, but nothing helps.

  My old PC is dead (suspect grilled motherboard) I removed the hard drive and bought a unit to connect external drive. It is recognized by my laptop and some files are recognized and can be opened but I have two files of documents that are protected by word (separate passwords that I have) and I can't access it. Have tried to configure mirror on laptop user accounts, but nothing helps.

  If you mean by 'password protected' files have been encrypted by using EFS, Windows file system and that you have neglected to export your certificates and private keys or affect a recovery as suggested inarticle of best practices of Microsoft agent, you're probably the GROUND, but here are a few suggestions:

  http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/EFSRecovery/index.php

  http://www.TweakXP.com/article37355.aspx

  http://www.ElcomSoft.com/aefsdr.html

  If you want to say something 'password protected' Please explain.