BitLocker command line interface

re: BitLocker command line interface

jim — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:05:02 GMT

Do you know how to disable BitLocker without decrypting the volume by BitLocker command line interface?

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The things that are better left unspoken — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:20:04 GMT

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The BitLocker Command Line Interface...

Peering through Windows... — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:21:02 GMT

Are you aware of BitLocker and what it can do? If not, you can read a full lowdown here , however, in

re: BitLocker command line interface

Alun Jones — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:17:47 GMT

Curse you, you knew that I'd already have tried this by the time you got around to posting a comment!

USB flash drives don't list as encryptable by Bitlocker, but USB external IDE drives do.

The best idea I've come up with for "out of the box" encryption of a flash drive is to format the drive as NTFS, create a folder, encrypt the folder and its subfiles with EFS, and then export the PFX file to the root folder of the drive. Not quite as comforting as having a completely opaque partition, but if you want anything more on a flash drive, you'll have to go with a third-party app and hope that it's installed on every machine you go to (or that it's small enough to keep on the thumb-drive).

Sadly, I didn't have the time to try and encrypt an external IDE drive while keeping my main boot-drive unencrypted, which I thought might be entertainingly outside of a narrow spec.

re: BitLocker command line interface

TechNet Archive — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:49:00 GMT

I haven't tried this, Alun. Why don't you let us know the results of your experiment? :)

re: BitLocker command line interface

Alun Jones — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:21:42 GMT

So, can I use BitLocker to protect a removable drive?

re: BitLocker command line interface

david — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:12:25 GMT

Bitlocker status reports needs conversion, but the disk is already NTFS? I don't have a clue what this could be referring to.

re: BitLocker command line interface

david — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:36:20 GMT

Found the 0% problem to be related to my SATA disk. Exact same installation on IDE disk no issues.

Error log suggests problem purging metadata.

re: BitLocker command line interface

anony.muos — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:54:07 GMT

It is a business feature...so it should be present in the Business edition. Hope that'll change by Vista SP1.

re: BitLocker command line interface

TechNet Archive — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:35:45 GMT

ALEXTANSC -- Yes, you're right, BitLocker is quite useful, but comes with a certain amount of danger: if you lose your keys or there is some other (hard drive, motherboard) damage that prevents Windows from booting, only the recovery password can get you back to your data. Our experience shows that most home users don't even back up their hard drives, let alone keys. So therefore, BitLocker, which is really designed to be an enterprise feature so that recovery passwords can be automatically managed by the corporate IT department, is available only in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions. If a home user really wants to take advantage of the feature, then that person can use Ultimate edition.

DAVID -- Not sure what to suggest other than you call PSS, who is better equipped than I am to help you troubleshoot what might be going on. I haven't seen this before.