Bad things happen and sometimes those bad things cause your FileVault 2-encrypted Mac to be unbootable. In the event that you find yourself in this place, or you’re about to be, here’s how you can unlock or decrypt your FileVault 2-encrypted drive using Disk Utility and the password of an account that’s authorized to log in at the FileVault 2 pre-boot login screen. Update – June 11, 2013: As of Mac OS X 10.8.4, you will need to unlock the encrypted volume first, then you will be able to decrypt it. Boot your Mac and hold down ⌘-R (Command –R) to boot from the Mac’s Recovery HD partition.
Note: You can also boot from a, boot to and connect it via Firewire or Thunderbolt to another Mac, or use some other 10.7-booting drive. As long as you have 10.7’s Disk Utility, this should work. Open Disk Utility.
Select your locked hard drive. Under the File menu, select Unlock “Drive Name” or Turn Off Encryption, based on what you want to do. When prompted for a password, you can enter the password of any authorized account on the drive. If you unlock the drive, you should then be able to use Disk Utility’s repair tools to hopefully fix the problem that’s preventing your Mac from booting. If you turn off the encryption, the encrypted drive will decrypt.
Once it’s finished decrypting, you should be able to access your data again using normal recovery methods (booting from another 10.6 or 10.7 boot drive, utility drive, etc.). Thanks for your answer. I have two possibilities: Hold the option button pressed and load the Flash Drive, then the Hard Drive is still encrypted. The “decrypt” and other options in the Disk Utility are greyed out as well as the partitioning tab.
The other option is to boot into the hard drive. I enter the pass phrase and the mac tries to boot for a while, then shows a question mark and doesn’t do anything further. I am really annoyed at this point since I have to finish my paper till next week Any suggestions?
You’ll be my hero. I’ve faced a serious problem which I can’t solve for several weeks already. The last hope is your help. My father has an external usb drive with his own data on it. He used Mountain Lion before but some time ago he upgraded his OS X to Mavericks. When he used his external drive in Mountain Lion system it didn’t ask for password when the drive was mounted but after upgrade it began to ask for password to decrypt the drive. He tried every password he usually used for system’s administrator account or everywhere else but there was no luck.
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Google drive app for macbook. Password hint says ‘last name date’ (exactly ‘date’, not ‘data’) and he insists that he didn’t enter any encryption password or any security questions all the more so. So more likely I can’t have encryption password to be recovered (and recovery key too) but I need to recover the data on the drive. What I can do with this case? I’ve found software named Passware Kit Forensic that can decrypt FireVault2 drives but it needs physical memory image which I think is useless now from upgraded to OS X Mavericks system.
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I can’t believe I’m the first on the planet who faced this problem and I’m sure there is a solution for it. Thanks before.