BitLocker is one of the simplest ways to encrypt an external drive on Windows, as long as you're using it with Windows devices. It's just one of many security features in Windows 11.

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The BitLocker Control Panel opens with all available drives listed alongside their encryption status. They're separated under Operating System, and Fixed Drives sections. You can encrypt any or ...

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 ...

3] Try another Windows version. If the BitLocker drive is encrypted on Windows 7/8, this Bitlocker drive cannot be read on Windows 11/10 as Windows 11/10 uses XTS-AES encryption algorithms and old ...

If you are running Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education, you can use BitLocker To Go — Microsoft’s native disk encryption utility — to encrypt your flash drive.

After encrypting your drive with BitLocker, you won’t notice any difference in using your computer. Unlike with most other third-party encryption programs, you don’t have to type in an ...

To enable BitLocker encryption on a USB flash drive, do the following: Insert the USB flash drive into the computer, click Start, and then click Computer. Select the USB flash drive. Once selected, ...

To make BitLocker automatically unlock your drive, you need to open the BitLocker Drive Encryption panel in the Control Panel first. Here you can find an option named Turn on auto-unlock.

On Windows 10, you may need to temporarily suspend BitLocker encryption to perform specific tasks, such as firmware, hardware, and Windows updates, using Control Panel, PowerShell, and Command ...