Posts Tagged ‘BitLocker’

January 2 2010

Updating BIOS on a computer with BitLocker enabled

Before updating BIOS on a computer that has BitLocker enabled, make sure you suspend BitLocker encryption before you update the BIOS.
If BitLocker was not suspended, the computer will not accept your BitLocker key the next time your computer boots and the only way you can start your computer is with a recovery key. You will [...]

November 3 2009

ScreenCast: Encrypting USB flash drives in Windows 7

Windows 7 comes with a cool new feature called ‘BitLocker To Go’, which is a disk encryption mechanism to protect USB flash drives.
USB flash drives are becoming ever so common thanks to their small size, ease of use and low cost. Users often carry critical or sensitive data on USB drives and carry it outside [...]

March 14 2009

BitLocker “To Go” for removable drives

BitLocker, first introduced in Windows Vista, has become an important encryption method when it comes to increasing security of laptop computers by encrypting the hard drives.
In Windows 7 beta, you can take security one step further by making use of the BitLocker encryption feature for USB flash memory, external hard disks and other removable media. [...]