Windows Vista Ultimate's new drive encryption feature BitLocker supposedly works with a regular USB drive. But if you pulled your hair out trying to enable it using Microsoft's non-existent ...

Losing your USB flash drive before a big presentation is a terrible way to start a Monday. Losing a drive that also contains valuable personal data or confidential company information will ruin ...

In the BitLocker Drive Encryption window, you will see a couple of options. If the USB drive or hard drive is new and does not have any files on it yet, go with Encrypt used disk space only .

BitLocker To Go is a version of BitLocker drive encryption for removable storage devices that you can use to encrypt USB flash drives, SD cards, and external drives (HDD and SSD) formatted in NTFS ...

Alternatively, you can use the "BitLocker To Go" feature to encrypt removable drives (such as USB flash and external drives) connected to your computer. To set up BitLocker To Go on a removable ...

Select how (Microsoft account, USB, file, and Print) you want to back up your BitLocker recovery key for this drive, and click Next. The Microsoft account option is only available when you are ...

Right-click your flash drive and select Turn on BitLocker. If you're on Windows 11, select Show more options first. Wait for BitLocker to initialize the drive and set a password for the drive.

BitLocker, USB drives not at fault — it’s BIOS . Originally published April 2, 2010 at 12:00 pm Updated April 2, 2010 at 2:01 pm . Q: I recently installed BitLocker on my laptop in an effort ...