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10.7: Using FileVault2 to encrypt a second hard drive with user folders
Authored by: fourCC on Nov 05, '11 11:49:06AM

Hey guys, I'm desperate. I followed all these steps carefully and now I can't access my secondary disk that I just encrypted. The password I set is not accepted. It is not that the password is wrong, something happened during the encryption that makes the disk now completely unreachable.

some minutes after executing the command: "diskutil coreStorage convert [IDENTIFIER] -passphrase [passphrase] ". I rebooted the machine and now I think that because of this, the encryption process got corrupted and now there is no way to fix this.

In this disk I had very important stuff that now it looks like it is lost forever. Ye, I backed this stuff up but as I'm a bit retarded, by mistake I left the back up (sparse image in the same disk thinking it was another one.

the question is. What could I do? Is there anything that I could try?

To revert the process, to change the password, to encrypt on top?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.



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