Windows 7 - BitLocker Drive Encryption - BitLocker To Go - Turn On or Off

Ok. Thank you for sharing your results Warfare.

sorry... maybe this is a dumb question, ermm... can we re-lock the encrypted drive in on-the-fly without system restart/logoff? if can, can someone show it off?

Not a dumb question. I seem to recall MS themselves elsewhere recently expressing surprise there wasn't an explicit command, and indicating they looked to add it. It's a security risk that you can't readily re-lock a drive as easily as you can perform other functions.

In the meantime, you can do the following via an elevated command prompt. You can also make it a .bat file that you simply run as an administrator.

The command to lock drive d: on-the-fly would be:

manage-bde -lock d:

There's a space after "manage-bde" and after "-lock".

More similar Bitlocker command line things are at the following should there be need:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...13(WS.10).aspx

woahhh! there is actually eh... many thanx poin2!...
this is wud i'm looking for , if there got something like just a button to lock/unlock the drive it would be just nice M$... =)

another question for bitLocker, can we somehow encrypt just any folder in any hdd in our computer with BitLocker?

Hello DeadGoat,

You cannot do so with bitlocker since that is only for storage drives. However you can encrypt a file or folder just like Vista in Windows 7 though.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

thanx Brink... tried that before, its just i'm not feels the "secure sensation" with this method... maybe bcoz its doesnt have lock/unlock feature to open the file or folder that we encrypted

Yeah, I would prefer to use BitLocker on a drive or BitLocker to Go on a USB key instead.

thx you

You're welcome Hacker, and welcome to SevenForums.