Encrypting a drive with BitLocker

If you have very confidential information stored on…your hard drive, maybe on an external USB…drive, well, the best way to protect that and keep it secure is to encrypt it.…Well there is a feature built into Windows…8.1 that will allow you to encrypt your drives.…It's called Bit Locker.…It's been around in previous versions of Windows.…Still available here. We're going to take a look at it now.…Let's type in,…right from our start screen, Bitlocker.…Notice manage Bitlocker shows up here at the top.…

Clicking that will take us to our old…desktop environment, and open up Bitlocker Drive Encryption.…Notice our options here, you'll see your own operating system drive.…And by default, BitLocker turned off.…As an administrator, that's what the icon means, next to turn…on BitLocker you can turn it on for that fixed data drive.…And if you have other drives,…they'll be listed here as well.…If you're like me and you've plugged in a USB…drive, you'll see it down below under removable data drives.…So instead of working with our hard drive, our hard disc.…