The BitLocker feature was introduced in Windows Vista and allowed you to encrypt the content of your hard drive.
Now in Windows 7 they offer BitLocker To Go which allows you to encrypt portable USB flash drives.
First open up My Computer and Right-punch the flash drive you want to encrypt and select Turn on BitLocker.
After BitLocker initialized the flash drive you will need to enter in a password to unlock the drive.
After the key has been saved as a file or printed you will see a confirmation message.
Finally you will be ready to start encrypting the drive so just poke the Start Encrypting button.
While it is encrypting there will be a progress screen displayed.
A successful encryption of the USB flash drive.
notice that the drive icon will change to show its encrypted with BitLocker.
Right-choose that icon to bring up options to manage BitLocker encryption.
you could also always have it unlocked on specific machines in the future.
you’re able to also use the encrypted drive in Vista and XP.
BitLocker To Go Reader is a Windows Explorer pop in navigation utility for showing the content of the drive.
With a BitLocker encrypted drive you will only be able to read and copy files.
If you gotta add files or change them you will need to use a Windows 7 machine.
This is a great way to easily check that sensitive data on your USB flash drive is safe.
Right now anyone who has Windows 7 RC1 Ultimate can use this feature.
