Win 7 with the function of U disk

U disk is the preferred mobile storage device for many friends, but because of the small size, u disk is also very easy to lose, the important data and information stored in it is likely to be leaked. The use of encryption software, although it can play a protective role, but more cumbersome. This problem has also been plagued by small set up for a long time, began to use Windows 7, found in Win 7 with a feature can be for our U disk encryption.

The BitLocker security feature is already available in Vista, and Windows 7 BitLocker is more powerful and requires no user to modify the complex settings such as Group Policy, as long as you are logged on to the Windows 7 system as an administrator. Insert a U disk, in the "Computer" right click on the U disk, in the pop-up menu select "Enable BitLocker."

A BitLocker Drive Encryption wizard pops up, and as you choose to unlock the drive, it is recommended that you choose "Unlock drive with password". After entering two consecutive passwords (with a minimum password of 8 characters), click Next.

To prevent the password from being forgotten, BitLocker will have the creation of a recovery key saved to another drive or print retention, and if you choose to save the key, you will get a text file with the filename "BitLocker recovery key ***.txt."

Finally click on "Start Encryption", BitLocker began to encrypt your U disk, the process will take the time to be encrypted U disk capacity and storage file size decision.

After the encryption is complete, and then back to the drive list, we can see that the U disk has been "locked"!

After the U disk inserted into the computer, will first pop up a "BitLocker Drive Encryption" prompt box, only the correct input password to normal use of the U disk.

Under Win 7, use BitLocker encrypted USB disk into the XP system of the computer, the same can be BitLocker encryption protection, and win 7 is different under XP can be opened the U disk, but the file inside the need to correctly enter the password to be "BitLocker to Go Reader "way to open, so no win 7 friends do not have to worry about the use of the encrypted USB drive.