Read: How to Upgrade Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro. 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 ...

The Windows 10 boot and shared data partitions somehow got encrypted with Bitlocker (and thus are inaccessible from the Win 8.1 install) after a repair shop swapped the motherboard.

As users of Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise have access to, and will likely use, the full-disk encryption BitLocker feature, Microsoft has acted quickly.

As of the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption tool that’s built into Pro and Enterprise versions will no longer assume that self-encrypting SSDs are, ...

Windows 10 BitLocker encryption is turned off during feature updates, which can allow an attacker to access the Windows 10 system folder as an admin user. Skip to main content.

Now by default Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system will automatically format and encrypt any new SSD drives connected to a Windows 10 system encrypting the drive with BitLocker.

To eliminate that risk, use the BitLocker To Go feature of Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise editions to encrypt the drive so that it can't be read without a password.