How BitLocker encrypts a USB drive

With the wide use of U disk, U disk encryption is becoming more and more important, how to choose good encryption software? In fact, in the Win7 system has been equipped with a U disk encryption security function--bitlocker. BitLocker does not require users to modify complex settings such as Group Policy, as long as they are logged on to the WINDOWS7 system as an administrator.

1. After inserting the USB stick, right click on the USB drive in the "Computer" and select "Enable BitLocker" in the pop-up menu.

2, this will pop up a "BitLocker Drive Encryption" wizard, as needed to choose how to unlock the drive, the small recommended that you choose "unlock the drive with a password." After you enter the password two times (minimum password is 8 characters), click "Next".

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

4, finally click "Start Encryption", BitLocker began to encrypt your USB drive, the process will take the time required by the encrypted USB drive capacity and storage file size decision.

Once the encryption is complete, go back to the list of drives to see that our USB drive has been "locked"!

After you insert the USB flash drive into your computer, you will first get a "BitLocker driver Encryption" prompt, and you can only use the USB stick if you enter the password correctly.

In Win7 under the use of BitLocker encrypted USB flash drive inserted into the XP system computer, the same can be protected by BitLocker encryption, and Win7 is different from the XP can open the USB flash drive, but the inside of the file needs to enter the correct password to " Bitlockertogo reader "way to open, so do not install Win7 friends do not have to worry about the use of encrypted USB stick.