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There's nothing worse than realizing your external hard drive has been lost or stolen, when it contains sensitive personal or company data that could get you in trouble should it fall into the wrong ...

BitLocker is a user-friendly feature, and it only takes a few steps to encrypt a drive. Once it has been encrypted, the data on the BitLocker-protected volume becomes irretrievable without ...

Under the "Fixed data drives" section, click the "Turn on BitLocker" option for the secondary drive. (Image credit: Future) Check the "Use a password to unlock the drive" option.

BitLocker is Windows' built-in encryption feature that helps combat many data breach problems in the digital era. You can apply it to encrypt your hard drive and other storage devices.

Windows also denies access to BitLocker encrypted drives or folders if you forget the password. To recover data encrypted in Windows, you must use the certificate or key you created when setting ...

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.

By default, Windows 11 will encrypt all the fixed drives on your PC using BitLocker when you first connect them, and this applies to newly-created partitions, too.

M3 Data Recovery Software has released M3 Mac Bitlocker Loader 3.5, an update of the utility that lets you transfer data between a Bitlocker encrypted drive and a Mac. As a file transfer app, M3 Mac ...

Last month's BitLocker Recovery bug should be a wake-up call for everyone who owns a Windows PC. Make sure you have a copy of your recovery key so you can avoid being locked out of your data files.