Start mas in target disk mode3/30/2024 ![]() ![]() But Macs of the last few years have drives that can’t easily be removed or are impossible to remove at all. You might consider removing the hard drive as one strategy. Because the T2 chip restricts starting up with an external drive without making a specific administrative change that requires a password, you won’t even be able to boot off an external drive-and you’d need an account password after that to mount the drive when started up externally, in any case. ![]() With the T2 chip and no FileVault, a Mac will boot to the startup screen, but unless you had the password, even though the drive’s contents are available to a user, you’d have to break into macOS to gain access to files. Otherwise its startup volume remains unavailable. With FileVault turned on with any Mac, a password has to be entered at startup to even start macOS running. In nearly every scenario involving either a Mac with a T2 chip, FileVault enabled, or both, you have to have an administrative account’s password, often the main or only account on a Mac: ![]()
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