The hard drive will be unlocked or decrypted. Wait for the utility to finish running and then reconnect the hard drive. Click Unlock or Decrypt, depending on the scan results. Can I decrypt the external hard drive FileVault directly on a Windows PC ?
When I plugged the hard drive of my macbook pro into another computer (a Windows PC) with a USB, I realized a couldn't open it because my hard drive was encrypted with FileVault 2 (Core Storage). Hopefolly, the hard drive isn't damaged.Looking for a guide to recover from encrypted hard drive? What you need to do is to firstly decrypt EFS (encrypted) and unlock hard drive partition, and then recover data from this Windows encrypted hard drive with a data recovery app.