Microsoft Windows technology for full disk(volume) encryption.
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Bitlocker corrupted my drive or?
I just encrypted my drive yesterday with Bitlocker. Everything seemed to go fine and later in the night well after the process was over, I shut my computer down and went to sleep. When I booted my ...
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bitlocker stuck asking for chkdsk /r
I recently cloned my HDD to an SSD. I previously had Bitlocker, but disabled (decrypted) before cloning.
Now that I've swapped in the SSD, I want to reenable Bitlocker. When it is almost done ...
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How to activate BitLocker ToGo on a USB disk in use?
I have a home server running Windows 8 Professional which has two 1TB external USB disks. One, the "primary", is used for storage and is included in several Windows Libraries (such as Music, ...
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Trigger Recoverable BitLocker Lockout
My team is about to provide our traveling colleagues with new Windows 8 laptops. Part of our security solution depends on the use of BitLocker. Every laptop will have two partitions configured like ...
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I can't unlock bitlocker on my drive without restarting
I turned on bitlockeron my drive E:
when incrypting was 15% my laptop shot down and now I can't unlock my drive.when I want to unlock, blue crean apear and system restart....
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Bitlocker won't initialize on a 4TB drive with 4K sectors
I'm trying to enable BitLocker on a 4TB drive with 4K physical sectors (Advanced Format) on a 64-bit Windows 7 box with SP1.
The drive is partitioned GPT (1 partition using all of the available ...
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Can't shrink a data partition on a Windows 8 computer
My computer is running Windows 8 X64 Enterprise.
I have two partitions, C (System) and D (Data). Both are bitlocked.
I would like to shrink my D partition (in order to create a new one). Using the ...
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How can I determine if my Thinkpad W500 will run Windows 8 Bitlocker?
I am running Windows 8 on a Lenovo Thinkpad W500, Model: 4063-RF5. How can I determine if it has the proper bits (TPM, etc.) to run Bitlocker? Or more generally how can I determine if any system is ...
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Recover lost 5th primary partition
I recently decided to enable bitlocker on my Windows 7 computer.
Little did I know that this meant the setup wizard would chop off a 300MB piece of my C: partition and create a primary partition from ...
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Bitlocker enabled HDD windows xp dualboot
I know both bitlocker password and recovery keys but I don't know Windows 7 Administration password on my Laptop. I need to install Windows XP dual booted with Windows 7. But because of bitlocker I ...
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BitLocker: Decrypting a locked drive, not having recovery key or password
The problem is that I have forgotten my password to unlock my E: drive which contains my important information. Unfortunately I don't have a recovery key. I click on Unlocking a drive and then I click ...
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Bitlocker password includes £ symbol (pound sterling)
I have changed the BitLocker password; the new one includes the character '£'. This cannot easily be typed; what keystrokes can generate this character please?
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Win 7 full disk encryption with backup
I have a win 7 laptop that I would like to fully encrypt the hard drive and back up the encrypted hard drive routinely. Should I use TrueCrypt (not running Ultimate)?
And how would I access the ...
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Bitlocker To Go drive is mounted as Read Only after it's unlocked
A while back I encrypted an external USB drive (NTFS) with Bitlocker To Go on my Windows 7 PC.
Now, when I connect the drive to my Windows 8 PC, I enter the Bitlocker password for the drive when ...
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Full Disk Encryption with TPM, not subject to cold boot attack
Here's a passage from Wikipedia on BitLocker
Once a BitLocker-protected machine is running, its keys are stored in
memory where they may be susceptible to attack by a process that is
able to ...
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Windows Bitlocker and automatic unlock password storage safety
I've encrypted my external HDD with a Bitlocker and after rebooting computer I tried to open that drive and got this message:
Say, if I pick to "Automatically unlock on this computer from now on", ...
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Win7 --> Win8 = Bitlocker won't ask for password
I have a Dell E6520 laptop with a TPM. It had Windows 7 Enterprise x64. The C (boot) partition is encrypted with Bitlocker. Bitlocker would prompt me for a password after POST, and after I entered ...
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How can I turn on BitLocker encryption on Windows Phone 8? [closed]
Does anyone know how to turn on BitLocker encryption on Windows Phone 8?
It's apparently supported but the details are a bit sketchy.
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Replace BitLocker key
I'm not sure if this question is a real duplicate of this
My laptop runs BitLocker without TPM but using a USB token to insert at every boot.
I've got that pen drive stolen...
I would like ...
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Is Win 8 Bitlocker to Go locked to user profile, TPM or USB key?
Earlier Windows versions had EFS (Encrypting File System), which was a bit infamous for eating user data in the hands of inexperienced users. The reason is that EFS is tied to the Windows user ...
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Bitlocker asks for password on boot. After entering the password successfully- it asks again
I am trying to encrypt my drive with BitLocker. I am running on Windows 8 professional and do not have a TPM chip in my laptop (Asus N56VJ-WH71). I am trying to use a flash drive in its place.
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Can BitLocker in Windows 7 or 8 notify a server or administrator of password-failures?
There seems to be no significant security consequences to failing login-attempts with BitLocker other than brute-force prevention. Is there a way to have a deployment notify a server or remote user ...
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Wipe HDD after X amount of BitLocker attempts?
I am looking for a solution to secure Windows 8 Pro (x86) tablets since Remote Wipe is only available for Windows RT (ARM) devices.
I currently have Bitlocker + PIN setup on the device and was ...
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Does Bitlocker decrypt unallocated data?
First thing first, I am NOT talking about full drive encryption. Bitlocker has a feature to encrypt used space only. I am talking about this.
Does Bitlocker remove encryption of unallocated data ...
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How can I decrypt a bitlocker drive after startup automatically without encrypting the Windows drive?
I want to startup my Windows and then see a dialog box (or a commandline window) that prompts me for the drive password to decrypt it automatically after bootup.
I tried to make a .bat "script" ...
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I have a USB locked using bitlocker. I have the password,but don't have the recovery key. But can't enter my password
I have my data on a USB stick and it was protected using bitlocker on my windows 7 Ultimate. I think I tried to remove the encryption and I said remove password when I right clicked the drive and ...
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Is it possible to access BitLocker protected drives on other platforms?
Is it possible to access BitLocker encrypted external hard drives from other platforms, like Windows Mobile, Android, Surface, Linux, Mac OS X?
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What are differences between EFS and BitLocker in Windows? [closed]
We learned in MCITP about their features.
Are there any conflicts between EFS and BitLocker?
Can we use both of them together? If so, how?
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BitLocker fails to initialize after relocating BDEDrive
I'm trying to create an additional partition om my notebook by shrinking the C: partition (Windows 7).
In order to achieve this, the following steps are applied:
Disable BitLocker and decrypt C: ...
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Can we use special characters for Windows passwords?
I was wondering if we can use special characters in Windows password. I tried to use '♥' in bitlocker, the password was set.
But when I tried to unlock the drive. I couldn't print this character by ...
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What does Bitlocker measure to detect a startup change?
My work laptop is running Windows Vista with Bitlocker enabled. From time to time, most notably when I go on vacations and such I have a personal SSD I swap into the laptop so that I can use the ...
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The BitLocker encrypted logical drive of my laptop is not accessible. On clicking error appears,“Application not found”
I had an important personal data that was stored in my laptop drive 'F'. My 4 year old son also uses my laptop to play games. To secure my data I used bitlocker software that was already there in my ...
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Windows 7 and HP LaserJet Pro400
After installing a new printer and using USB for connection, I get BitLocker Recovery Key challenge at each boot.
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Windows treats two fixed drives differently
This question is related to, but distinct from this question.
I have two drives, each of which contains one NTFS partition encrypted with BitLocker.
Western Digital 2TB Elements (USB enclosure)
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BitLocker status “Not Encryptable” for my 2gb memory card
I am using 2gb memory card in my phone. I used BitLocker function in Windows 7. Now my memory card doesn't open and can't be formatted. When I open the card, the message
Formatting memory
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BitLocker does not allow me to access my drive and ask for password
I have Windows 7 enterprise and Bit locker is enabled on d Drive now when I open d Drive ask for password which I don't have. Can you please help someone for this issue?
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openSuse full disk encryption
I'm a proud Suser. I'm about to reinstall 12.2 on my ASUS N76VZ (UEFI x64 laptop).
Since I'm very sensitive about laptop security against theft or unwanted inspection, I chose to use BitLocker with ...
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How do I get a TPM module for a motherboard that does not already have one?
I have an ASUS P8P67 DELUXE motherboard, which (as far as I can tell) does not come with a TPM module, so I can't use BitLocker without a PIN or USB key.
Is there any way to buy and install a TPM ...
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What is the difference between BitLocker and Windows RT's device encryption?
Windows 8 has BitLocker, a feature we know from Windows 7.
I was looking at Windows RT and it has something like device encryption, which apparently is not BitLocker.
no Bitlocker encryption ...
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Windows folder encryption
My situation
I know that bitlocker is meant to encrypt whole drives, but I have an hard drive that is already fully partitioned and containing data.
I'd like to encrypt part of one partition, leaving ...
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Rescued Bitlocker drive showing as unallocated
Recently my WD USB 3.0 3TB Mybook port collapsed and I had to open it up and rescue the drive. I put it into an Astone USB 3.0 3TB supported enclosure and plugged it into my USB. It didn't detect ...
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Is it possible to open a drive encrypted using BitLocker Drive encryption in Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to access bitlocker encrypted drive in linux?
While installing Ubuntu I accidentally overwrote the boot sector that loaded Windows. One of my drives was encrypted ...
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After new win7 installation cannot recognize my bitlocker drive
I've had windows 7 64bit installed on my PC and I converted one drive to a bitlocker drive and it was working fine.
Today after windows crashed I've installed windows7 64 bit enterprise from scratch. ...
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Cloning BitLocker encrypted disk to VMWare Fusion image?
I have a ThinkPad running Windows 7 Enterprise with a BitLocker encrypted drive. I would like to clone or somehow convert this physical machine into a virtual machine that I can with either VMWare ...
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Enabled storing Bitlocker keys in Active Directory, is there a way to upload keys of drives encrypted before this?
We have enabled storing of Bitlocker keys within the device object on Active Directory, however before this was implemented, we had encrypted 100+ devices using bitlocker and we've only found ways to ...
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Recover Data from a Bitlocker Data drive lost as RAW space
Bitlocker Data drive lost as RAW space. Please help me recover it.
A bitlocked drive partition was accidentally set as active. Tried to fix problem using CMD diskpart utility and set inactive again. ...
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Enabling Bitlocker in Native VHD Boot
I have a laptop with a single hard drive, using the GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk layout, with the following partitions:
120MB EFI System Partition
300MB Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR)
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Switch Windows 8 from a hybrid MBR/GPT => GPT only on Macbook Pro Retina
I used DiskUtility+Bootcamp Wizard to setup my hard drive for Windows 8 (final MSDN). Somewhere in that process, the Apple tools turned my GPT disk into a hybrid MBR/GPT. All four of my MBR's primary ...
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Can I use BitLocker on a Windows 8 Tablet? How?
I hear that Windows 8 Pro can use full disk encryption. I also understand that Win8 is targeting the "slate" / "tablet" form factor specifically. But all my previous experience with BitLocker ...
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Bitlocker-To-Go on fixed drive
Scenario
Two drives are connected to a computer. One via a SATA-to-USB interface, the other directly via a SATA-to-eSATA cable.
The drive on USB appears as a removable drive, the drive on eSATA ...
