Make Hard Drive Password Protected

Reasons to make hard drive password protected, "I need hard drive password protected " this was the first demand when I started learning computer, my first question was based on data security "How can we make our hard drive password protected to save my data ?" my teacher told me many ways to hide and prevent access using many utilities, up to some extent I followed and use to hide my  personal data additionally people who have to travel around whole year carry their Net book and Notebook with them and sometimes they accidentally lose the laptop and the important data, In this condition the data in the wrong hand can be used for some evil purposes. 

WHY TO MAKE HARD DRIVE PASSWORD PROTECTED?

Here comes the actual role of our BitLocker Windows 7 made it easy it has default feature to secure the disk, It encrypts the data and makes your hard drive password protected even if the laptop is lost or stolen the data can't be misused, so let's secure our data. We are going to perform some easy steps to create (Encrypt) password on the hard disk.

Steps to make hard drive password protected

Step#1: Click on Start Then Click on Control Panel,

Step#2: In Control Panel click on System and Security. Hard drive password protected

Step#3: You will get BitLocker Drive Encryption click on it, (If you do not find this page then Scroll Down)

You will find this page if you didn't find that page, Click on the highlight Red Box Option,

Step#4: After any of two pages you will find this page.

Step#5: Now Turn On BitLocker, Check  the first option and set your password. it must be more than 8 Character.     Example : sunday@123 (Note: please write down your password)

Step#6: Now It will give you option to choose how do want to save Recovery Key in case if you forgot the password, so Click on Save the recovery key to a file,

Step#7: As an Example I am saving the Recovery Key on the desktop, you can save as per your choice,

 

Step#8: The Recovery Key has been saved, click on Next to proceed,

Step#9: You are ready to encrypt the drive, make sure you remember the Password and This encryption is going take Some hours(Depends on the data that you have) to complete so please don't panic if it takes time don't shut down however you can restart the machine as and when you want.

Click Start Encrypting. at long last the hard drive will be password protected

The Encryption is started now..........................

After a couple of hours or more than the encryption will be complete and Hard drive will be password protected

This Message will be displayed at the Completion of the Encryption.

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Bitlocker Option is available only on Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise Edition
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