Questions tagged [bitlocker]
Microsoft Windows technology for full disk(volume) encryption.
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How to access a BitLocker-encrypted drive in Linux?
I have a laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate. I have encrypted my drives using BitLocker. Now I have also installed Lubuntu along with Windows. But my encrypted drives are not visible in Linux. How ...
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Windows 10 lacks partitions and WinRe options
I have just installed a fresh windows 10 v1909. Having installed some apps, I activated bitlocker. Bitlocker warned me saying "something" about a recovery partition not existing and how it can be made ...
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How to format a drive encrypted with Bitlocker?
I have a HD protected by Bitlocker. Login, password and restorekey are unknown and all I want to do is wipe the whole drive. When I try to boot from a windows installation cd I have no access to the ...
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How do I encrypt Samsung 840 SSD with Bitlocker?
I need help encrypting my Samsung 840 Evo with Bitlocker.
Here is my hardware:
Samsung Evo 840 500GB hard drive (firmware EXT0BB6Q)
Asus P8z77-v motherboard (BIOS v. 2104)
Asus TPM chip - purchased ...
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Bitlocker Performance Impact on SSD
I've put a brand new SSD into my work computer and my IT department wants me to use BitLocker. I read one of the other threads on BitLocker performance on standard harddrives, but I was wondering - ...
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Why does BitLocker want a recovery key instead of a password?
I have a .vhd image of a BitLocker encrypted drive.
When I mount and double click the drive, BitLocker wants me to enter a 48-digit recovery key and doesn't ask for a password.
Why is that so and ...
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recover files encyrpted in bitlocker
I activated bitlocker with my drive and when it was encrypting something the power was suddenly interrupted. When I returned to my drive and entered the unlock password, The bitlocker wizard is not ...
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Can I upgrade to Windows 10 with BitLocker Enabled?
I am currently running Windows 8.1 Pro, with BitLocker enabled (the hardware has no TPM, though).
I am curious as to whether I will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 when it is rolled out without ...
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BitLocker issue. Recovery Key is required on each startup after installing secondary OS
I'm using a laptop with TPM module with BitLocker-encrypted internal HDD, running Windows 7.
Recently I've installed a Windows 8 on the external, eSATA drive.
Windows 8 detected the Windows 7 and ...
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Windows 10 V1511 - Mounting External Encrypted Drive Error "The parameter is incorrect"
I don't normally use encrypted volumes on my Windows 10 Professional machine but needed to do so today. I normally use the drive on another system that runs Windows 7 Enterprise.
I discovered this ...
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How to enable Bitlocker without TPM
HP Pavilion complains about Bitlocker saying TPM is not found. Is there a setting that I need to enable in the motherboard or is there an update for it?
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Is a volume with BitLocker "Waiting for Activation" encrypted or not?
In Disk Management, the partition says "NTFS (BitLocker Encrypted)":
In the BitLocker Drive Encryption control panel applet, it says "BitLocker waiting for activation" and it has an option to "Turn ...
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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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How to "eject" non-existing USB drive from Windows 7 host?
I use a USB key which is encrypted with BitLocker to store various data. I keep that key with me all the time.
What happens all the time is that I send my home computer to hibernate without ...
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Full drive encryption with Bitlocker freezes at 99.9%
I have enabled Bitlocker for fully encrypting a partition/drive on my disk a few days ago (it took some hours to reach 99.9% completion). This partition only contains a few GB of data (which Windows ...
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Problems enabling Bitlocker on Surface Pro with Windows 8.1
Using a brand new Surface Pro (first generation) out of the box, installed current updates, then 8.1, and any further recommended updates after 8.1 was installed.
I've installed a two other things ...
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BitLocker asking for protection code after Ubuntu installation
I have just installed Ubuntu side-by-side to a Windows 10 partition shipped on a new laptop.
Meaning, the laptop shipped with Windows 10, and I installed Ubuntu alongside the Windows partition using ...
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Can Bitlocker be used in a dual boot system with Windows on one drive, Linux on another?
My workplace allows for remote logins to the company network, with certain prerequisites for securing a computer before making the connection, one of which is that Windows must be used to make the ...
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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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Will clearing the TPM make BitLocker encrypted data unavailable?
I've learned in this answer that starting with Windows 10 v1607, Windows will not allow to set, save or change the TPM owner password by default. So the option to reset a TPM lockout by entering the ...
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Explorer shows unlocked bitlocker encrypted drive as locked in Windows 10
Here's Explorer:
This is the Bitlocker manager:
They are obviously not in agreement and the drives ARE unlocked. Right click in explorer on S: or Z: shows the "Unlock drive" option. When selected it ...
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Recover data from bitlocker partition in Windows 7
I have one hard drive. It's partitioned into 4 partitions, one of them is encrypted by Windows 7 Bitlocker, then I used Acronis Disk Director to merge both partitions during the process PC power off ...
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Is USB based bitlocker as safe as tpm based?
My computer doesn't have TPM
There is an option to turn on bitlocker if only I used USB to store the private key
How would security be affected on that scenario?
will it be as safe as TPM?
If my ...
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What are GPT Protective volumes on Windows 8 and can they be recovered?
I have seen a few GPT Protective volumes now with Windows 8.x. These are default configurations where the users are very "un-savvy" and so they did not enable anything as far as additional security ...
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Change Bitlocker to use the TPM plus a USB key and a PIN
I have bitlocker running on Windows 7 (x86) on a Dell D630 laptop (it has a 1.2 TPM).
It is running in transparent mode.
I'd like to know how to configure it to use a PIN and a USB key as well, but ...
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Repair Corrupt Bitlocker Files - Windows 8.1
In the past I have never used BitLocker, but recently I have become interested in setting it up on both my mom's computer as well as my own. We both had Windows 8 Pro on which we never used Bitlocker, ...
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How can I recover my BitLocker recovery key
my laptop has freezed, I restart it with power button but now, at start up, BitLocker said that:
You need to enter your recovery key because Secure Boot has been disabled. Either Secure Boot must ...
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What does BitLocker actually encrypt and when?
I need full disk encryption for business laptop computers running a current version of Windows 10 Pro. The computers have an NVMe SSD drive from Samsung and an Intel Core i5-8000 CPU.
From some web ...
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Cannot re-enable Bitlocker
I've installed a fresh Windows 10 in a partition on my system, enabling bitlocker. Then I booted Linux from the other partition and overwrote the master boot record with Grub so I could boot Linux and ...
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Windows BitLocker not offering unlock-by-password option
I have a problem in a single computer trying to do a process I've successfully done on another computers.
What I have successfully achieved on another computers:
Have a non TPM compatible module ...
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Enable Bitlocker auto-unlock without system drive encryption
Does anyone know of any trick - registry change, group policy etc. which will allow a Bitlocker volume to be auto-unlocked without having a bitlocker encrypted system drive?
My system drive is a ...
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What is the performance cost to running BitLocker?
BitLocker encrypts the entire hard drive. I run Visual Studio and build projects much of my day. How much will BitLocker slow me down (dual core laptop with 3 GB of RAM)?
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Is it possible to re-lock a bitlocker drive?
I'm running a partition with bitlocker on a Windows 7 Ultimate machine, which contains secure data that I have to recover infrequently. Unlocking it to access the data is obviously no problem, but is ...
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Unlock Bitlocked data drive as standard user on the command line
I have a Windows 10 Pro PC, no domain, I don't use BitLocker on the system drive but have encrypted some fixed data drives using BitLocker and a password (no TPM).
When I like to unlock these drives I ...
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Windows 10 reports "The drive protected by Bitlocker is already unlocked" but does not allow access to that drive through File Explorer
When accessing an external drive with BitLocker / BitLocker "auto-unlock" enabled, occasionally Windows 10 reports, in the top left of the screen, that "The drive protected by Bitlocker is already ...
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How can I resize a windows-bitlocker partition with gparted?
I want to shrink my windows partition, and windows does not allow to shrink more than a few GB. Can I access that bitlocker partition with GParted, parted or any other partitioning program?
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Got a Warning For Enabling Firmware TPM
I recently enabled Firmware TPM in my BIOS in order to see if my system is compatible with Windows 11.
My question is about the following warning I got when I enabled Firmware TPM:
Intel PTT is a ...
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Find out if a PC has a TPM chip installed?
I have several Windows XP laptops that I need to check to see if they will work with Bitlocker if I install Windows 7. If they have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip then Bitlocker should work ...
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Locally encrypt Dropbox folder
I would like to encrypt the local copies of my Dropbox files, but not the online versions.
I have log on password protection (not BIOS) on my Windows 7 Ultimate laptop but that's easily circumvented ...
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Computer randomly shuts down during Bitlocker prompt?
Recently I encrypted my main Windows drive with Bitlocker (no TPM, just password), but during the boot prompt to 'enter your Bitlocker password' the computer will shut down at a seemingly random time. ...
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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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Windows 10 Shows Orange Screen with White Vertical Lines on boot
Orange Screen (See picture below) appears on boot after Dell loading screen.
Dell Inspiron 580 w dual monitors
Dell Bios is latest version (A07)
Nvidia GeForce 310 (Driver version 341.95 - latest)
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BitLocker: Encrypting used space only or full space?
I'm having a new 8 TB hard drive and I would like to encrypt it. I know that encrypting the full space would take hours or days. Since it's new and there isn't data on it yet, I'm considering to ...
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Migrating Windows 7 to a new drive, cloning the encrypted HDD to SSD
I have laptop with Windows 7. The whole drive is encrypted with Bitlocker. I want to switch magnetic hard drive to SSD. How can I mirror the entire system onto the SSD with the LEAST amount of user ...
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How to enable BitLocker when booting Windows 10 from a non-Microsoft boot manager?
My setup
I have ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 laptop and want it to dual boot Linux and Windows 10. For that I want to use a boot manager supporting both Linux and Windows; currently I'm using rEFInd. I also want ...
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Why does BitLocker need a minimum volume size of 64 MB?
Since the future of TrueCrypt appears to be still unclear, I figured I'd try to get my stuff migrated into BitLocker at least for the time being. I nearly never have to access my encrypted data from ...
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bitlocker - how to create recovery key?
I have a w2k12 system on which I enabled bitlocker on my D: drive. I cannot use TPM, because there is no w2k12 driver for that module which fits my motherboard, so I used USB flash to store the key. ...
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Does the TPM affect performance of Windows BitLocker?
My question could be silly, but I haven't found confirmations on the topic
Does using a TPM improve Windows BitLocker's performance than relying only on PIN/USB/token authentication?
In my case I need ...
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What is the difference between a BitLocker startup and recovery key?
I would like to encrypt a system partition using BitLocker using a password (manage-bde -protectors -add c: -pw), but (safely) store a key elsewhere if I ever forget the password.
Should I add a ...
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How to turn on bitlocker on 4 TB USB HDD? [duplicate]
When trying to turn on Bitlocker on an external 4 TB USB HDD using Windows 7, there's error A device attached to the system is not functioning. in a rather unhelpful dialog, as shown below:
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