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Apple Computing Products:
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(encrypted) internal disk as external usb disk?
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<blockquote data-quote="outsidemunich" data-source="post: 1637705" data-attributes="member: 342671"><p>Hello</p><p></p><p>I am in the process to upgrade my macbook and replace the internal harddrive with a new ssd drive. should be relatively simple: boot from bootable usb stick with yosemite and freshly installed ssd drive, install on ssd drive --> clean new install. </p><p></p><p>my first though is that i can simply put the former internal harddrive into a usb case and have all the old data available on an external drive. easy.</p><p></p><p>however, the internal disk was encrypted when i installed lion(?), hence all the data is encrypted as well. </p><p></p><p>can i simply proceed and when i plug in the encrypted usb disk i will be asked for my user/password of the old macbook install? after all the google research i have done i fear it's not going to be that easy, but i will rather run into issues and the data will not be decryptable from a now different, newly built, machine.</p><p></p><p>has anyone ever done this before? or an idea if this will work? </p><p></p><p>thank you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="outsidemunich, post: 1637705, member: 342671"] Hello I am in the process to upgrade my macbook and replace the internal harddrive with a new ssd drive. should be relatively simple: boot from bootable usb stick with yosemite and freshly installed ssd drive, install on ssd drive --> clean new install. my first though is that i can simply put the former internal harddrive into a usb case and have all the old data available on an external drive. easy. however, the internal disk was encrypted when i installed lion(?), hence all the data is encrypted as well. can i simply proceed and when i plug in the encrypted usb disk i will be asked for my user/password of the old macbook install? after all the google research i have done i fear it's not going to be that easy, but i will rather run into issues and the data will not be decryptable from a now different, newly built, machine. has anyone ever done this before? or an idea if this will work? thank you! [/QUOTE]
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