I forgot to turn off filevault before erase my hard drive
I’ll done all the preparation before trade in of my MacBook Pro but I realized I forgot to unlock and turn off my FileVault. What should I do? Can I just go ahead to send the trade in kit?
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I’ll done all the preparation before trade in of my MacBook Pro but I realized I forgot to unlock and turn off my FileVault. What should I do? Can I just go ahead to send the trade in kit?
If you are providing the Admin password, it's a don't care.
They will re-install whatever they want to have on it. That would be slightly easier if you did a new ERASE of the ENTIRE Device, by immutable device-name (not just the MacOS Volume) taking care to turn OFF FileVault, and then did a new Install.
What you should NOT do is:
Disable FileVault.
Changing the setting takes only a moment. However every block on the disk must be read using on-the-fly decryption, then re-written without encryption. It can literally take days.
If you are providing the Admin password, it's a don't care.
They will re-install whatever they want to have on it. That would be slightly easier if you did a new ERASE of the ENTIRE Device, by immutable device-name (not just the MacOS Volume) taking care to turn OFF FileVault, and then did a new Install.
What you should NOT do is:
Disable FileVault.
Changing the setting takes only a moment. However every block on the disk must be read using on-the-fly decryption, then re-written without encryption. It can literally take days.
is the drive now empty, or
did you re-Install MacOS onto the encrypted drive?
Yes, I have erased the hard drive and reinstalled MacOS.
Hi,
I think it's OK to go a head, since you erased whole hard drive.
If you worry about that try to reinstall macOS to check FileVault is on.
Although I could hardly understand what you said, I just sent it anyway. I erased and renamed the whole disk, I guess that’s why you meant.
I forgot to turn off filevault before erase my hard drive