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How secure are files, that I saved on an internal Macbook hard disc using OSX 10.11? I cannot check whether the hard drive is encrypted using FileVault as the machine crashed. I am thinking whether I need to invest 40$ to get it savely formatted by some professionals or just sell it.
If you are not the account owner and don't know the account password, will you be able to read files from my account if you put the hard drive in a new machine?
No, the backups will not be encrypted automatically, but it's very easy to enable for directly attached disks. Just check "Encrypt Backup Disk" in the Time Machine disk selection settings.
If you're backing up to another Mac, you can use Disk Utility on that Mac to erase non-boot drives and put an encrypted partition on them:
Have you tried moving them to a FAT32 USB disk, then using Windows to move them to your NTFS drive?
You could also try MacFUSE and NTFS-3G.
Best Answer
If the hard drive is not encrypted, then it's not at all secure!
Basically anybody can take the hard disk, put it into an external enclosure and connect it to another Mac to read all files on the disk.