Data security is not asking for people, Win 8 easily get disk encryption

When it comes to the privacy of personal computers, everyone will think of encryption. We know that a password is required for the computer to start the login. No matter how complicated and difficult the login password is, it is only the first threshold to enter the system. For those who want to get your computer data, he can completely bypass this step. Get information from your hard drive. Or some friends are accustomed to using mobile hard drives and USB flash drives to save important private data, and once lost, it will be exposed. Therefore, what we can think of is to set the encryption for your disk and USB flash drive once again. Even if someone else enters your system, you cannot read the data on your hard disk. Since it comes to encryption, many people think about what method to use and which software can implement encryption. In fact, it's not that complicated. If you are using Windows 7 or the latest Windows 8 system, you can easily encrypt your hard disk and USB flash drive without third-party software. This is the BitLocker encryption method that will be introduced in this article. Take Win8 as an example. Let's see how to use BitLocker to encrypt U disk.

How to start BitLocker

1. Open position in the control panel

▲Start BitLocker<2> in the control panel. Right click on the encrypted disk, launch the right-click menu on the pop-up menu

▲ Right click on the disk, and start BitLocker

to encrypt the U disk in the pop-up context menu. Steps

After launching BitLocker, the BitLocker Encrypted Wizard dialog box will pop up. Here we see two options, "Unlock the drive with a password" and "Use the smart card to unlock the drive". As the name suggests, the password you need to set here is for unlocking. For most users, unlock with a password. Explain here what is "smart card unlock".

▲BitLocker Encryption Wizard

A "smart card" is a small plastic card containing a computer chip. Usually issued by the information technology (IT) department of a large company. To use a smart card, you also need a smart card reader that is installed or connected to your computer and can read the information stored on your smart card.

The password setting is of course as complex as possible, so the password here should contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, spaces and symbols. Of course, you have to remember. After completing the password input, click “Next” to enter the “Backup Recovery Key” window. Here we need to back up our own key to facilitate recovery. After all, you have set a very complicated password, in case you have forgotten it. What to do, don't think about cracking, so far, there is no good way to crack BitLocker encryption!

Unlike the backup of Win7 system, Win8 system can be associated with cloud account everywhere. In Win7, the password can be backed up to the boot U disk, but under Win8 can directly backup to your Microsoft account. The other two options are "Save to File" and "Print Recovery Key", the same as under Win7.

▲Select the location to save the password backup

Here we click "Save the recovery key to file", you can save the key to the local hard disk in TXT file format, remember, do not save Go to your encrypted disk! If you forget your password, you can't get your backup file!

▲Save encrypted backup file

Select the size of the drive space to be encrypted. If the disk data is not much, it is recommended that you select "Encrypt only used disk space"; if you have important files on the disk Already more, choose another one - encrypt the entire drive.

▲Select the size of the drive space to be encrypted

Click "Next" to continue the BitLocker disk encryption.

▲Confirm Encryption

The process of BitLocker encryption is still somewhat slow and requires some patience. Try not to interrupt or operate the encrypted disk during this period.

▲Start encryption

▲Encrypting

▲Complete encryption

After the encryption is successful, we can see that the encrypted disk has a The graphic of the lock, the figure below means that it is currently open.

▲Display of encrypted disk

Manage and delete BitLocker

Create BitLocker disk encryption, we can change password or delete encrypted disk at any time. BitLocker. The operation method is also very simple. On the menu of right-clicking on the encrypted disk, select "Manage BitLocker" and click Open.

▲Manage BitLocker

In this dialog box, we can see the current BitLocker encryption status of all disks, and can modify, backup and delete the password of the disk that has been encrypted by BitLocker. Password and turn off BitLocker. Here we mainly refer to turning off BitLocker to cancel disk encryption.

▲BitLocker Management

Click "Turn off BitLocker" in the above figure

▲Confirm that BitLocker is closed.

Decrypting.

▲Decrypting

Complete decryption.

▲Complete decryption
Conclusion:
The BitLocker encryption option under Win8 system is slightly different from Windows 7 system, and it is more suitable for current mainstream needs in the operation experience, such as password backup cloud account. support. If you are very important to the data on your computer, or the data protection of your mobile disk, BitLocker encryption is perfect. It is important to note that the BitLocker feature is not available for XP systems, so to experience this feature, you need to upgrade to the latest Windows 8 system as soon as possible. With this BitLocker security, you no longer have to worry about your data being stolen!