If it shows Encrypting Disk hang on until the process is complete. Encryption takes some time, and you can check the status by right-clicking on the drive.

Please don’t remove right after clicking Encrypt Disk option.Type a Password to encrypt, and the type again to confirm, Type a Hint for the password in case you don’t remember in future.Please note that encrypting one of the partitions will not encrypt the whole drive. If there are many partitions, select the partition you want to encrypt. Right-click on the USB or External Drive, and select Encrypt option as shown in the screenshot below.Now launch Finder Application, and select the USB Drive or any partition of External Hard Disk Drive.Now Click on erase to format the USB drive or External Drive Partition.Please make sure you have select GUID Partition Map and Mac OS Extended before clicking the Erase option.Formatting the drive/partition is not mandatory, but you are recommended to do so Just format the partition you want to encrypt. If you are trying to format an External Drive and the drive has many partitions, then you don’t need to format the whole drive. You can move them later to USB Drive after encryption. Please move the files to your Mac’s internal storage for the time being. Launch Disk Utility, and select the USB Drive to Format it.

Connect the USB or External Drive to your MacBook or iMac.

How to Encrypt USB Drive or External Hard Disk Drive on Mac OS X or MacOS If you can’t provide the correct password, you won’t be able to access the data. When you connect it to any other system, it will ask to enter the password. What happens After Encryption?Īfter Encrypting the External Storage all the files are secured with the password you specified for the storage. Now the question is how you can do it? Let’s know about the encryption process in MacOS. So if you have private data and you want to keep them secure in a USB Drive or External Hard Disk, you must encrypt it with a strong password. Encrypting disk with a password is very useful if you want to prevent others accessing your important files. Today we will learn to encrypt disk on Mac.

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