How Windows 10 enables BitLocker encryption

What is BitLocker?

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption protects data on your computer better by encrypting all the data stored on the Windows operating system volume. BitLocker uses the TPM to help protect the Windows operating system and user data, and helps ensure that the computer is not tampered with, even if it is unattended, lost, or stolen. BitLocker can also be used without a TPM. To use BitLocker on your computer without using the TPM, you must either change the default behavior of the BitLocker Installation Wizard by using Group Policy, or configure BitLocker by using scripting. When using BitLocker instead of the TPM, the required encryption key is stored in a USB flash drive that must be supplied to unlock the data stored on the volume

function Introduction

BitLocker Drive Encryption It is a new data protection feature in Windows Vista that is primarily designed to address a growing concern: data theft or malicious leaks caused by physical loss of computer equipment. This encryption driver can also be used in the next-generation operating system, Windows 8.1. The BitLocker utility, published with Windows Server 20,081, provides the ability to protect critical data by encrypting logical drives, as well as system-initiated integrity checks

How Windows 10 enables BitLocker encryption

1, select the disk that needs to be encrypted, then right click, click "Enable BitLocker";

2, after the click will have initialization process (according to the encryption disk capacity is different, initialization time is different);

3, enter the password to encrypt the disk you want to set, click "Next";

4, this interface will have four ways to back up the key, to prevent the user password can not be forgotten to open the disk;

(1) Save to Microsoft account backup;

(2) Save to the USB disk, if there is no mobile storage settings, there will be the following prompts:

(3) Save to file. (You can save the key on a local disk, not an encrypted disk)

(4) Print the key, you can print out the key to do backup.

5, do a good backup, click Next will have the following prompts, will remind multiple backups, to prevent the key to forget and lost.

6, select "Encrypted only used disk space", relatively, faster, suitable for the new disk.

7, click "Next", click "Start Encryption" can be.

8, encryption process;

9, after the completion of encryption;

10, into the resource manager of this computer, you can see the need to encrypt the disk has an open lock, and the next reboot must enter the key to unlock the encrypted disk.

11. Right-click on the encrypted disk, there will be "Change BitLocker password" and "Manage BitLocker" two options, can be used to change the password and manage the entire hard drive BitLocker.