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Can you boot from an external hard drive time machine
Can you boot from an external hard drive time machine





can you boot from an external hard drive time machine

Make sure your data is safe before moving forward! Here’s more on yore differences between Disk Utility encryption & File Vault: FileVault 2 vs Disk Utility Encryptionīasically I would recommend you carefully restore your data onto a fresh drive unencrypted for now so you don’t loose anything. Once you reformat it you’ll loose it and then you’ll loose access to your encrypted external.

can you boot from an external hard drive time machine

Right now you appear to still have access as the key which is imbedded in your internal drive. Now you added a wrinkle here by encrypting your drive via Disk Utility you run the risk of not being able to regain access. Here’s the recovery options: About macOS Recovery Newer OS-X & MacOS have additional firmware updates which are installed during the upgrade process. You need to upgrade the system firmware OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0 Apple also updated it a few times so the options may not be the same between the different releases. First Lion 10.7.5 does not offer recovery services by default.







Can you boot from an external hard drive time machine