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bitlocker for Windows 7 Home Premium

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium SP 1 on a HP pavilion.

I am looking into securing my laptop and in a SOPHOS article it mentions BitLocker as a way to encrypt my hard drive. My question is does BitLocker work with all editions of Windows 7? When I go to the windows site that talks about BitLocker it says "Applies to these editions of Windows 7, Ultimate and Enterprise". 

If Bitlocker does not work for Home Premium could you suggest an alternate free or low cost encryption software I could try? 
Hi!

That's correct: BitLocker does NOT work for Home Premium.

I suggest that you have a look at this article: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-encryption-utility.htm

Hope that's helpful!

Cheers
Julia

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I highly recommend the freeware "Truecrypt".

   < http://www.truecrypt.org/ >

 

HTH,

  JW

 

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It is not that Bitlocker does not work with specific versions but that it is only supplied with Ultimate and Enterprise and cannot be added as a separate utility. It has to be integrated into the disk management system.


As part of considering an encryption system you need to look at why you are implementing it and what your fall back options are. Standalone solution lacks central management so there is no way to recover a lost key. Truecrypt is free but lacks that centralised admin feature.

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