There's nothing worse than realizing your external hard drive has been lost or stolen, when it contains sensitive personal or ...

Users running one of the affected drives may think that Microsoft’s BitLocker tool, which comes standard on Windows 10 Pro, will cover the issue with its software-based encryption.

That means that any SSDs you secure with BitLocker will now rely on software-based AES encryption performed by your processor, regardless of whether the drive claims to perform its own hardware ...

If the drive doesn’t have hardware self-encryption (or you’re using Win7 or 8.1), BitLocker implements software encryption, which is less efficient, but still enforces password protection.

To turn on BitLocker, go to the Control Panel and look for the BitLocker Drive Encryption panel. If you have Category View turned on, look for it under System and Security .

The BitLocker encryption built into higher-end versions of Windows Vista goes a long way toward locking out intruders at the boot-drive level, but it's neither 100% hassle-free nor 100% secure. Topics ...

If you’re a Windows user, you may have been surprised to learn that from an update in May 2024 onward your system drive will ...

To fix the “Cannot install Windows, BitLocker Drive Encryption is enabled on selected partition” error, suspend BitLocker via Settings or Control Panel, or use your recovery key to unlock the ...

When using Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption Windows will leverage the hard drive’s hardware-based encryption as opposed to its own software-based BitLocker Drive Encryption. This leaves the ...