Keep them in mind when setting up BitLocker on your PC, and you'll be sure to have a good experience. As a reminder, BitLocker is not available on Windows 11 Home, and as of version 24H2 , you can ...

If you connect your encrypted drive to a PC that does not support BitLocker to Go (one running Windows XP/Vista or Mac OS X, for example), it will not be able to read your drive and will probably ...

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 ...

Setting up the BitLocker encryption. If you got through all that hassle, you should be on track for the next bit. Depending on whether you have a TPM or not, ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive.

For example, with 107GB in use my test 240GB M500 was fully encrypted with BitLocker enabled after a couple of seconds. Just a pause, then boom, BitLocker was enabled.

Pros of BitLocker The obvious benefit of enabling encryption is to keep your sensitive information secure and since it’s not a third-party program, it integrates with Windows for easier use.

Passware, a software firm that provides password recovery, decryption, and evidence discovery software for computer forensics, has updated its flagship application this week to support breaking ...

To paraphrase Fox Mulder, trust no self-encrypting SSD. As of the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption tool that’s built into Pro and Enterprise versions will no longer ...

Encryption is a wonderful thing. While I don’t run full-drive encryption on my Windows desktop at home—courtesy of BitLocker—that’s only because I’m the only one who ever uses my system ...

BitLocker is an on-by-default setting in Windows 11 Pro that is meant to encrypt and protect your data. While that sounds all good and dandy, the setting now appears to rob as much as 45 percent ...