Clever use of the features that come with Win7 for U disk encryption

The compact U disk is the preferred mobile storage device for many friends, but because of its small size, the U disk is also very easy to lose, and important data and information stored in it are likely to be leaked. Although the use of encryption software can play a protective role, it is more troublesome. This problem has also plagued Xiaobian for a long time. After starting to use Windows 7, I found that a function that comes with Win 7 can encrypt our U disk.

BitLocker security is already available in Vista, and Windows 7's BitLocker is more powerful. Users do not need to modify the group policy and other complicated settings, just log in to Windows 7 as an administrator. The system is ready to use. After inserting the USB flash drive, right click on the USB flash drive in "Computer" and select "Enable BitLocker" in the pop-up menu.

A "BitLocker Drive Encryption" wizard will pop up, and you can choose how to unlock the drive as needed. Xiaobian recommends that you select "Use password to unlock the drive". After entering the password twice in succession (the password is at least 8 characters), click "Next".

In order to prevent the password from being forgotten, BitLocker will save a recovery key to another drive or print it. If you choose to save the key, you will get a file name "BitLocker Recovery Key ***.txt" Text file.

Finally, click "Enable Encryption" and BitLocker will start encrypting your U disk. The time required for this process will be determined by the capacity of the encrypted U disk and the size of the storage file.

After the encryption is completed, you can see that our U disk has been "locked" by going back to the drive list!

After inserting the USB flash drive into the computer, a "BitLocker Drive Encryption" prompt box will pop up first. The USB flash drive can be used normally only after the password is correctly entered.

When using BitLocker encrypted Win disk in Win 7 to insert into the XP system computer, it can also be protected by BitLocker encryption. Unlike Win 7, you can open the U disk first under XP, but inside The files need to be correctly entered to open in the "BitLocker To Go Reader" mode, so friends who don't have Win 7 don't have to worry about not being able to use the encrypted USB flash drive.