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1. #Bitlocker reader windows vista install#
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3. #Bitlocker reader windows vista password#
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5. #Bitlocker reader windows vista download#

Let me answer (or atleast try to answer) your questions. It's good that you pursued Wikipedia for information about Bitlocker. because obviously the thief does not possess the encryption keys. Īlso if the encryption key was on a flash drive /pen drive.and if the thie has not stolen that flash drive.then it is understandable that the thief will not be able to start the PC.

#Bitlocker reader windows vista password#

So if the thief has got TPM and the encryption key inside it then obviously the PC will start normally if thief knows the password and username.īut its written in the forums that all the data will be in encrypted form and thief would not be able to read any files. I mean lets say that a thief steals a whole PC and starts it at his home then wont he be able to start the computer ?īecause TPM is right there inside the CPU on the motherboard. īut confusion is that its being said that If our PC is stolen or lost then no one can see any of the files that we have stored on the hard dive. Then it says that Bitlocker then finds encryption key from a TPM (a microchip ) or a Flash drive and decrypts all the files and starts up the system. I searched the web and found that Bitlocker first performs Operation System Integrity check and sees that whether booting is being done from the same partition as earlier.What does this mean ?

#Bitlocker reader windows vista download#

"The BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool automates the following processes to configure the hard disk drive correctly: it creates a second volume, if one is not already present it moves the boot files to the correct volume, and ensures that the operating system is correctly configured to find them at startup and it configures the correct volume as the active partition on the drive for startup."īitLocker Recovery Password Viewer for Active Directory Users and Computers tool is available for download here.īitLocker Repair Tool is available for download here.īitLocker Drive Preparation Tool is available for download here.I am confused about Windows Vista's Bitlocker Encryption. "The BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool configures the hard disk drives in your computer properly to support enabling BitLocker," Microsoft explained. However, the tool will initially attempt to reconstruct and recover the content encrypted with BitLocker. Microsoft informed that the tool would require a recovery password or key and even a backup of the key package in order to decrypt the data. Additionally, you can right-click a domain container and then search for a BitLocker recovery password across all the domains in the Active Directory forest," Microsoft revealed.Īt the same time, Vista SP1 Enterprise and Ultimate users can turn to the BitLocker Repair Tool in order to recover data from a corrupted or physically damaged hard disk which was previously encrypted through BitLocker.

#Bitlocker reader windows vista install#

After you install this tool, you can examine a computer object's Properties dialog box to view the corresponding BitLocker recovery passwords. The BitLocker Active Directory Recovery Password Viewer is an extension for the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in.

You can use this tool to help recover data that is stored on a volume that has been encrypted by using BitLocker. "The Bitlocker Active Directory Recovery Password Viewer helps to locate BitLocker Drive Encryption recovery passwords for Windows Vista- or Windows Server 2008- based computers in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Following the release of the service pack, Microsoft has made available for download a number of three tools focused on BitLocker.

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Additionally, with the advent of Vista SP1 BitLocker now supports full disk encryption, and is no longer limited to just the bootable volumes of the platform.

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With SP1, BitLocker for Vista Ultimate and Enterprise editions now enables end users to take advantage of a multi-factor authentication method which is designed to bundle a key protected by the Trusted Platform Module with a USB stored Startup Key plus a user-generated Personal Identification Number.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 features a number of improvements over the RTM version of the operating system, with aspects of the evolution focused on the disk encryption technology that ships with the Enterprise and Ultimate SKUs.