How to Enable Full Disk Encryption on Mac?

Enabling Full Disk Encryption on Windows and MacOS

Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Security & Privacy.
Click the FileVault tab.
Click , then enter an administrator name and password.
Click Turn On FileVault.

How do I Enable Full Disk Encryption?

Sign in to Windows with an administrator account you may have to sign out and back in to switch accounts . For more info, see Create a local or administrator account in Windows.
Select Start > Settings > Privacy & security > Device encryption.
If Device encryption is turned off, turn it On.

How do you Encrypt a Disk on a Mac?

Connect the drive you want to encrypt to your Mac.
Open Finder and rightclick the drive from the Finder sidebar.
Select Encrypt.
Enter a strong password of your choice, plus a password hint.
Click Encrypt Disk.

Is FileVault Whole Disk Encryption?

What is FileVault? FileVault is Apples encryption software for Mac OS computers. FileVault fulldisk encryption FileVault 2 uses XTSAES128 encryption with a 256bit key to help prevent unauthorized access to the information on your startup disk.

How do I Unlock Encrypted Disk on Mac?

On the client Mac, start up from macOS Recovery by holding CommandR during startup.
Select " Disk Utility " and click "Continue".
Select startup disk in lefthand sidebar and click "Mount".
Enter recovery key in password field and click "Unlock".