Play w7's simple steps to encrypt the flash drive (1)

        Have you played Win7? Today we talk about another powerful feature of the small 7. Many friends will use smart flash drives as removable storage devices, but if you lose them, you may be able to lose data, but using third-party encryption software is quite troublesome. After all, installation and registration are not. It's easy. In fact, if you have already started Windows 7, you can use BitLocker to add "native" encryption to your flash drive, and the operation is quite simple.

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In fact, as early as the age of WindowsVista operating system has provided security feature called BitLocker, but only applied in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions . Windows 7's BitLocker is more powerful, and users don't need to make any additional settings (such as modifying Group Policy). As long as the administrator login system, will require an encrypted flash drive is properly connected to the computer, open the "Computer" window, follow the steps below:

Step 1: Right-click the flash drive, from the shortcut menu Select "Enable BitLocker", and the "BitLocker Drive Encryption" wizard will pop up. Please select the unlock mode as needed. It is recommended to select "Use password to unlock the drive", enter the password twice in succession, and click the "Next" button to continue.

Step 2: You can choose to save the recovery key to a file (so as not to forget their own), or you can print out the recovery key, if you choose the former, we will get a file name similar to "BitLocker recovery secret The text file of key 0B374660-8D1D-4B3F-B96E-6CF027DDA9E5.txt", click the "Next" button to continue.

Step 3: After entering the next window, click "start encryption" button, Windows7 will officially begin to flash disk encryption, encryption time depends on the capacity and the file capacity flash drive, wait a moment Encryption is complete.