BitLocker To Go is a new feature introduced with Windows 7. It lets you protect USB storage devices in a way similar to what BitLocker offers for OS and fixed drives.

Not only does BitLocker give users the ability to encrypt their OS volume to prevent access to a system and the data stored on it, but a feature called BitLocker to Go (introduced with Windows 7 ...

That post now says that you have to install a seemingly unrelated patch, KB 3133977, entitled, BitLocker can’t encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or ...

If you turn on BitLocker Auto-unlock, it will unlock encrypted volumes automatically. It does such a thing using the encrypted information stored in the Registry and volume metadata.

When you enable encryption for a drive manually, you have a few options for setting up BitLocker, and one that you should pay attention to is the option to automatically unlock the drive on this PC.

Retrieve your 48-digit BitLocker Recovery Key.; On the Recovery screen, press Enter. When you are prompted, input the recovery key. If your device starts in the (WinRE) and prompts you for the ...

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 ...

Most people who use the Home Edition of Windows 10 and 11 are unlikely to be aware that their computer also comes with a Microsoft encryption tool. On many computers, it’s even activated by ...

BitLocker-to-Go on Windows 7. As previously mentioned in my other article, BitLocker has now been ported to Windows 7, and begun supporting portable and flash drives.