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| Drive Eraser 6.12.0 | Drive Eraser 6.13.0 |
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Starting from Drive Eraser 6.1213.0 there is a support to boot and erase or newer is capable of booting and running erasure on Apple T2 devices. For Drive Eraser 6.12.0 it is required to manually update the grub boot files in order to support booting these devices.
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Booting these devices may require additional steps such as allowing the device to boot from external medias.
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Follow below steps in order to update the grub files on Drive Eraser 6.12.0:
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boot Apple device with T2 chip:
- Prepare a USB stick with the latest Blancco USB Creator tool, use exclusively a Blancco Drive Eraser 6.12.0 ISO image.Navigate in the USB stick to the directory /efi/boot/, then drop the download grub.efi file there (replace any existing grub.efi file if needed).. More detailed steps available here: Download: Blancco USB Creator
- You might have to prepare your Apple machine to boot from an external device. This is doable via the macOS Startup Security Utilities (a macOS administrator password might be needed to proceed), where you need to:
- Change Secure Boot to “No Security”.
Change External Boot to “Allow booting from external media”.
Info Note! If the device was reset to factory settings, device activation needs to be completed in order to have administrator access to the device.
- Connect the USB stick to the machine as well as an external keyboard (needed to control BDE).
- Boot the machine, select the Drive Eraser 6.12.0 image, then select the "Customized startup" booting option (do not add any additional booting parameter).depending on software version/target machine you may need to edit the booting parameters, refer to Erasing Apple computers with Blancco Drive Eraser for more details.
- The BDE UI should show up and the internal drive should be ready for erasure.
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| Note 2: During our tests, there were some fringe cases where the machine was fully booted (fans working) but the UI was not shown at all (black screen). If your machine shows a similar behavor consistently, it can be erased via the automatic erasure process or be remotely controlled from Blancco Management Console. |
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Note 3: Since the release of Blancco Mobile Diagnostics and Erasure on Mac 4.10 T2 and M1 Apple devices can now be erased using this external software. For more details please get in touch with your Blancco contact or the Technical Support |