Win8 Bitlocker driver encryption function

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We often face such a scene —— our common U disk is lost, then we are worried that no U disk can be used, It is afraid that important personal data we store will be leaked out. So for this situation, Windows 8 gives such an answer —— using Bitlocker drive encryption.

What is Bitlocker Drive Encryption? It is a built-in system encryption method that uses a string of characters as credentials to ensure that your mobile storage facility can not reveal data in the event of a loss. In Win8, this feature has a better experience than the previous version, let us take a look at how to use Bitlocker driver encryption to encrypt our U disk.

First, we press Win logo key + W, enter the drive encryption in the pop-up search box, click on the search results, as shown below:

Click to pop up a new window, as shown below:

The G drive is the drive letter of the U drive we want to encrypt. We click the submenu button on the right to open the following Menu:

Click to enable Bitlocker, a new window pops up, and wait for the initialization process to end:

After the initialization, we will see the encryption method selection. Window, here we choose to use the password credentials to unlock the drive, here we can enter a custom password for encryption:

After checking the password to unlock the drive, enter a custom password, We will see the backup settings for the recovery key:

The recovery key is to ensure that we use a string of characters to unlock the encrypted drive when we lose the voucher (password or smart card). This recovery key can be saved in our win8 Microsoft account, can be saved as a TXT file, and can be printed directly. It's worth noting that this is the way to save to a Microsoft account. Note that if you have a domain account, you don't have this option. After the item is selected, we can save it as a TXT file again, or print it directly. After the backup is completed, click Next.

Then we choose whether to encrypt only the used parts or encrypt the whole disk. Here, Windows 8 has explained the two options very clearly. We choose one according to our own needs, only encryption has been The use of the new part of Windows 8 can make the encryption process much faster:

After selecting the next step, the following window will pop up to confirm the encryption:

It should be noted that during the encryption process, if there is no click pause, you must not unplug or delete the drive, otherwise the files in the drive will be damaged. In order to ensure that the encryption is not cracked, it takes a long time to encrypt, so as the size of the encrypted portion is required, the encryption time will be lengthened to varying degrees, and it takes a while.

After the encryption is successful, we will see the following window:

Next we unplug the drive and plug it in, view the drive, double-click the drive, we can See:

Here we can enter the password to unlock and use it correctly. If we forget the password, don't worry, click the More option, click Enter recovery key, enter the front The key we backed up is fine.

If we need to turn off Bitlocker, after unlocking the encrypted drive, we open the search (Win+W) input drive encryption, you can see the following, just click on the settings we need to make Yes.