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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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Recover data from Formatted & Encrypted Hard Disk with Bitlocker [duplicate]
I have a hard disk with 1.5 TB capacity. I don't care about the music or the movies that take up most of space, but I had some very important files on it.
I had split my drive into two partitions: 1 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Did BitLocker drive encryption corrupt my disc?
I use my external HDD only with my laptop, which runs Windows 7. One of my friends tried to open it on another laptop with Windows XP.
The first two attempts, he faced an error saying "E: is not ...
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Windows 7 Bitlocker disabled but still prompting
My windows 7 bitlocker is disabled, but in the event log i am still getting errors on Bitlocker, and when I reboot I get "Back up your encryption key" prompts.
Is there a setting in the registry or ...
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How to access 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. Hence I ...
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Will my bitlocker partition be compromised if my Windows login is hacked
I am thinking of turning on bitlocker on my 2nd external HDD which is physically connected to my laptop using one of the available bays.
For convenience i would like to allow the bit locker drive to ...
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Is there any way I can access a bitlocker encrypted Windows 7 drive from Linux?
Is there any way I can access a bitlocker encrypted Windows 7 drive from Linux? I am not using TPM and I do have the key on a USB thumbdrive. So I have all the pieces.
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Windows 7 reinstalled, Bitlocker (or not) encryption issue
I've had to reinstall Windows 7 Ultimate on my PC. I use file encryption for some directories, and I have backups of the .pfx file for the machine. I double clicked the file on the machine and it ...
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Interrupted encryption using Windows 7 BitLocker
Can anyone help me please?
While I was encrypting my hard drive with Windows 7's BitLocker, I accidentally pressed the "Cancel" button, and now my hard drive won't accept my password.
Is there any ...
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How resistant is BitLocker against brute force attacks on the 48 character recovery key?
I've read this TechNet blog post, but I still can't determine how secure BitLocker is against a malicious user that attempts to brute force attack the recovery password. Is anyone familiar with this? ...
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Bitlocker encryption on data shared over network
Is there a way to restrict users to access encrypted data shared over the network using Bitlocker on windows 7 ultimate?
Meaning - any user accessing the shared data which is on the windows 7 ...
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Bitlocker Repair Tool for windows 7 Ultimate
I have just enabled bitlocker using a flash drive without TPM on windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
Just to be prepared - is there any way I can recover data from an encrypted volume in Windows 7 ultimate.
I ...
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Bitlocker performance when only encrypting one partition
I've read about the performance hit when encrypting your hard drive with Bitlocker, and since I'm using my computer to play games once in a while, I'm a little hesitant.
I have two partitions on the ...
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What are my options in recovering data from a drive encrypted with Windows 7 Bitlocker
I used the windows 7 Release Candidate when it came out, which included in it the BitLocker software. I must have set it to encrypt my drive and I've completely forgotten about it when I ended up ...
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What do encrypted files' data look like?
I know there are a lot of encryption programs available, that I would guess use different methods for encryption, and thus have different types of output files (.fve .tc .cha .dmg (bitlocker, ...
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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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What are the technical differences between truecrypt, bit locker to go and an iron key?
I am looking to get a new USB drive (my old one took an unauthorized vacation) and am looking into how to secure the data on it. Ideally I would like a visible, unencrypted space that may or maynot ...
