When it comes to the privacy of personal computers, everyone will think of encryption. We know that a password is required for the computer to start the login. No matter how complicated and difficult the login password is, it is only the first threshold to enter the system. For those who want to get your computer data, he can completely bypass this step. Get information from your hard drive. Or some friends are accustomed to using mobile hard drives and USB flash drives to save important private data, and once lost, it will be exposed. Therefore, what we can think of is to set the encryption for your disk and USB flash drive once again. Even if someone else enters your system, you cannot read the data on your hard disk.
Since it comes to encryption, many people think about what method to use and which software to implement encryption. In fact, it's not that complicated. If you are using Windows 7 or the latest Windows 8 system, you can easily encrypt your hard disk and USB flash drive without third-party software. This is the BitLocker encryption method that will be introduced in this article. Take Win8 as an example. Let's see how to use BitLocker to encrypt U disk.
How to Start BitLocker
1.Opened in Control Panel
▲Start BitLocker in Control Panel<2>2, right click on the disk to be encrypted, right click Start on the menu
▲ Right click on the disk, start BitLocker
to encrypt the U disk in the pop-up right-click menu
The BitLocker Encryption Wizard dialog box will pop up after starting BitLocker. Here we see two options, "Use password to unlock the drive" and "Use smart card to unlock the drive", as the name implies, the password you need to set here is for unlocking. For most users, unlock with a password. Explain here what is "smart card unlock".
▲BitLocker Encryption Wizard
& Smart is a small plastic card with a computer chip. Usually issued by the information technology (IT) department of a large company. To use a smart card, you also need a smart card reader that is installed or connected to your computer and can read the information stored on your smart card.
The password setting is of course the more complex the better, so the password here should contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, spaces and symbols. Of course, you have to remember. After completing the password input, click “Next” to enter the “Backup Recovery Key” window. Here we need to back up our own key to facilitate recovery. After all, you have set up a very complicated password, in case you I also forgot what to do, don't think about cracking. So far, there is no good way to crack BitLocker encryption!
Slightly different from the backup of Win7 system, Win8 system can be used everywhere. Cloud account association, in Win7, you can back up your password to the boot USB flash drive, but you can directly back up to your Microsoft account under Win8. The other two options are "Save to File" and “Print Recovery Key", the same as under Win7.
▲Select the location to save the password backup
Here we click “Save the recovery key to the file”, you can save the key to the local hard disk in TXT file format, remember, don't save to You encrypt the disk! If you forget the password, you can't get your backup file!
▲Save the encrypted backup file
Select the size of the drive space to be encrypted. If the disk data is not much, It is recommended that you choose “Encrypt only used disk space”; if you have more important files on your disk, choose another —— to encrypt the entire drive.
▲Select the size of the drive space to be encrypted
Click “Next” Continue to complete the BitLocker disk encryption.
▲Confirm Encryption
BitLocker Encryption process is still somewhat slow and requires some patience. Try not to interrupt or operate the encrypted disk during this period.
▲Start Encryption
▲Encryption
▲Encryption
After encryption is successful, we can see the graphics with an lock on the encrypted disk. The figure below means that it is currently open.
▲Display of encrypted disk
Manage and delete BitLocker
BitLocker disk encryption is established. We can also change the password or delete the BitLocker of the encrypted disk at any time. The operation method is also very simple. On the menu of right-clicking on the encrypted disk, select “Manage BitLocker> Click Open.
▲Manage BitLocker
In this dialog box, we can see the current BitLocker encryption status of all disks, and can modify the password, backup and restore, delete password and close the disk that has been encrypted by BitLocker. BitLocker. Here we mainly refer to turning off BitLocker to cancel disk encryption.
▲BitLocker Management
Click on the above image to close BitLocker ”
▲ Confirm that BitLocker is being decrypted.
▲Decryption
Complete decryption.
▲Complete decryption
Conclusion: The BitLocker encryption option under Win8 system is slightly different from Windows 7 system, and it is more suitable for current mainstream needs in the operation experience, such as password backup cloud account support. If you are very important to the data on your computer, or the data protection of your mobile disk, BitLocker encryption is perfect. It is important to note that the BitLocker feature is not available for XP systems, so to experience this feature, you need to upgrade to the latest Windows 8 system as soon as possible. With this BitLocker security, you no longer have to worry about your data being stolen!