Comments on: HowTo: Enabling BitLocker in Windows Vista Ultimate

By: Robinio

Robinio — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:11:40 +0000

Microsoft released BitLocker preparation tool and you can use this to prepare partition without reinstalling Windows.

By: sax

sax — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:17:21 +0000

Great guide, all I had to do was to follow your steps - thanks!

But I would also like to mention that I don’t understand why Microsoft does not offer option USB keyphrase. Than I would feel secure, now you just need USB which can be easily stolen. :-(

By: ashridah

ashridah — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:28:30 +0000

Hey,

Interesting howto, definitely makes the setup process clearer.

Might be worth noting that SP1 for vista is supposedly going to alter the behavior of bitlocker a bit, so that you can encrypt more than just the startup partition (C:)

Should make it a bit more useful for systems with larger disks that you want to split up, etc, although SP1’s not due out till next year or something.

By: gsrsantosh

gsrsantosh — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:51:15 +0000

thankyou for saying

By: Gregorio

Gregorio — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:43:41 +0000

Fantastic blog, keep posting!

By: Jaymz

Jaymz — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:59:25 +0000

I should also mention that I used this TechNet guide as a basis for my guide, only I tried to make it somewhat more user friendly and understandable (ie, more description on what those commands actually did).

I found the builtin help to be extremely unhelpful. It stated that you need a small 1.5GB or so primary volume, and Windows on the larger volume, but didn’t specify anything about how to go about it like my guide, and it also stated that instead of requiring a TPM, you could use a USB key, but BitLocker seems to be configured to require a TPM - needing you to change its settings in Group Policy to allow for just a USB key. That’s what inspired me to write this guide, as opposed to sending people straight to the TechNet article, and having them come back and go :hurr:

By: Jaymz

Jaymz — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:50:13 +0000

For those wondering what ever happened to “part 2″ of this, I decided that there didn’t really need to be much more past what’s written here, and just reworded the gpedit.msc bit instead. Yes, I did run this on both my notebook and home PC, and yes, it works fine. Only issue right now is that BitLocker ONLY encrypts the Windows drive and not additional drives - making it somewhat useless for a desktop PC - at least for me, because experience with Windows 2000 and XP has taught me to never put anything I care about on the Windows drive.

In any case, it’s pretty handy for notebook installs, at least. I can now freely do up “Important Passwords Go Here.txt” files and throw them all over my notebook without worry.