How to use the Bitlocker encryption of Win8 system to protect the data in the U disk

What is Bitlocker Drive Encryption? It is an encryption method built into the system that uses a string of characters as credentials to ensure that your mobile storage facility can not leak data in the event of a loss. In Windows
8, this feature has a better experience than the previous version. Let's take a look at how to encrypt our USB flash drive using Bitlocker Drive Encryption.

Operation steps

1, first we press “Win+W”, enter the drive encryption in the pop-up search box, click on the search results.

2, click to pop up a new window.

3, G disk is the drive letter of our U disk to be encrypted, we click the submenu button on the right to open the following submenu.

4. Click Enable Bitlocker to bring up a new window and wait for the initialization process to end.

5. After the initialization is complete, we will see the window for encryption mode selection. Here we choose to use the password credentials to unlock the driver. Here we can enter a custom password for encryption.

6. After checking the password to unlock the drive and entering the customized password, we will see the backup settings for the recovery key.