The BitLocker Command Line Interface...

re: The BitLocker Command Line Interface...

MattMcSpirit — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:24:55 GMT

Hi Debra,

To use Bitlocker in Windows 7, you'll need either Windows 7 Ultimate, or Windows 7 Enterprise. If you have either of those, you don't need to use the Command Line any more - just go to my computer, right click, select Bitlocker, and follow the instructions and it will encrypt your drive for you. Keep your recovery key safe though, just in case.

Thanks!

Matt

re: The BitLocker Command Line Interface...

Debra — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:42:55 GMT

Hi, i have an external hardrive, which was working when i had windows xp, now using windows 7.

this particular hardrive did crash and was fixed. it works on the other computer which is xp. when i go into "my computer" it says file system NTFS . Bitlocker status : OFF.

Now i have photographs on the the external which i do not wish to loose i do photography. I am afraid to play around with the bitlocker incase i erase everything, also do not understand what is "open and elevated command propmt" where do i find that?? NOT A COMPUTER BOFFIN IN PLAIN ENGLISH PLEASE.

re: The BitLocker Command Line Interface...

MattMcSpirit — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:23:57 GMT

Hi Dana,

Yes, I believe that BitLocker is part of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, in fact, there are a number of resources that talk about it:

http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2008/06/25/hyper-v-security-best-practice-use-bitlocker.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2c3c0615-baf4-4a9c-b613-3fda14e84545&DisplayLang=en

http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2008/07/01/hyper-v-security-how-to-use-bitlocker-to-protect-your-vms.aspx

http://ts2blogs.com/blogs/rwagg/archive/2008/10/24/installing-bitlocker-on-hyper-v-server.aspx

The last link there talks about BitLocker specifically on Hyper-V Server.

Hope that helps!

Matt

re: The BitLocker Command Line Interface...

Dana — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:24:32 GMT

Is there something equivilent in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2? Per this link, it appears that Hyper-V server should support bitlocker along with Windows Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/en/us/overview.aspx

re: The BitLocker Command Line Interface...

na5m — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:06:49 GMT

Thanks for the info! Really helped me. I usually prefer using the command line to perform important admin tasks. And thanks for the link to Steve Riley's site, too :)

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