1] Use BitLocker on Windows 11 Home To configure bitLocker on your system, follow the prescribed steps. Open Windows Settings by searching it out of the Start Menu or by Win + I.

You can add or remove the Manage BitLocker context menu from all unlocked drives encrypted by BitLocker for all users in Windows 10. The procedure involved is the same as mentioned above.

Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix a known issue causing Windows 10 systems to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the May 2025 security updates.

Microsoft responds with advice for Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise users to turn it off and on again. Researchers reverse engineer a bunch of self-encrypting solid state drives to reveal multiple ...

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.

Open the Windows search bar, type "BitLocker," click on Manage BitLocker and open it. Find your removable drive under Removable data drives – BitLocker To Go and select it.

Home versions of Windows 10 don’t support BitLocker. It’s a shame that self-encrypting SSDs can’t be fully trusted to be secure—that’s their proverbial One Job.

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.