Interrupted Secure Erase Process Cause Data Loss in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X allows securing your important files using FileVault to prevent unauthorized access to user. For security preferences, if you apply FileVault protection for any of user account, your complete home directry will get converted into encrypted disk image. If you are using Mac OS X Tiger then also you can safely remove data from hard drive with FileVault feature. However, sometime it creates problem due to interruption in erase process. In such situation, you need to try Mac Hard Drive recovery tool, if you’ve not created backup files.
You can safely erase you private data if FileVault protection is on checking “Use Secure erase” when you got “you are ready to turn on FileVault protection” dialog box. If you have selected this option then does stop in between process of secure erase, even when it is showing “Unmounting FileVault” for long time.What do you understand about Secure Erase process of FileVault?
After turning on FileVault with checking Use Secure erase option, you are logged out from the account and a Filevault dialog box appears. A status message will show you how it will to end encryption process. After ending of encryption process, secure erase begins but it does give any status message. It publishes “Unmounting FileVault” message. The procedure erases all files and they are removed when it copied to encrypted image of FileVault.
Result after interruption the secure erase process
You are not able to login to your Mac OS X account for which you allow the FileVault
All files of home directory, including the files of Mac desktop like music, pictures, movies, emails, bookmarks, application setting etc will be loss. You can access these files; even you login as different account.
If you have created backup copy of files before choosing FileVault protection then you can stop data loss situation otherwise you need third party software to recover those data. Mac Hard Drive Recovery is the smart tool used to recover corrupted, deleted, formatted data from hard drive. It provides depth scan of system for recovering data from hard drive. Try this tool to solve your problem smartly.
