I have connected my external hard disk to a windows computer. Now, when I try to connect it to my MacBook, it says "WD Drive Unlock will damage your computer. You should eject the disk".
It is still working fine when I access the disk back from the windows computer.
How can I get it to work from my MacBook without losing any stored data?
Thank you
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
If there's enough room:
Hopefully that will then work.
If there's enough room:
Hopefully that will then work.
Did you try ctrl-clicking on WD Drive Unlock and choose Open?
You have apparently used Western Digital's encryption program to encrypt the drive and it is trying to run that program to unlock the disk. However, WD didn't code sign or notarize the app, so Catalina considers it malware.
If ctrl-click, Open doesn't work, then take it to a Windows computer and disable the drive encryption.
I'm not sure whether this help in any way.
It looks as though it will enable you to access the disk and then copy the contents to a different external drive is you have / can borrow one.
I did allow downloads from "anywhere" as from the tutorial. But still can't unlock the hard drive..
Thank you for your reply!
Unfortunately there isn't enough space. And whenever I connect the hard drive to windows, it is shown as damaged on my Mac!
Great, I did disable the drive encryption and it's accessible now! Will try to encrypt it from my Mac.
Thanks a lot.
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