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

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    Ok. Thank you for sharing your results Warfare. :)
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    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?
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    DeadGoat said:
    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
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    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$... =)
    Last edited by DeadGoat; 01 Sep 2009 at 16:46.
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    another question for bitLocker, can we somehow encrypt just any folder in any hdd in our computer with BitLocker?
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    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
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    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
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    Yeah, I would prefer to use BitLocker on a drive or BitLocker to Go on a USB key instead.
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    thx you
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    You're welcome Hacker, and welcome to SevenForums. :)
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