How Do I Setup BitLocker on USB Pen Drive? Step by Step Guide

Nimmi Terance
3 min readJul 11, 2024

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In this post we learn how can I encrypt our USB Pen Drive. You have to wait for upcoming blog, where we explained how you can decrypt USB Pen Drive encryption.

BitLocker give a security of your data, which provide wide range of protection. If you lose your USB pen drive of any reason, anyone who finds it won’t be able to access the data without the encryption password.

Let’s start the encryption on USB Pen Drive

  1. You have to attach your Pen Drive on PC
usb pen drive

2. Click right and press turn on BitLocker

select bitlocker

Encryption process start in a second after selecting the turn on BitLocker option.

encryption process start

3. Next choose the option how much part of USB pen drive you want to encrypt.

Here are two option available password or smart card

enter password

Enter password and press “Next” button.

enter password

4. BitLocker provide backup key in next step. Just save it a safest place or new drive/external drive.

Here are three option of backup key:-

Look the backup key save as *,txt format

5. Next, select the drive space how much you want encrypt.

encrypt drive space

6. Choose the encryption mode. Then press “Next

choose encryption mode

7. External USB Pen drive encrypt

USB Pen drive encrypt

Wait until process completed.

encryption complete
encryption

8. See, the USB pen drive is encrypted.

encryption complete

Suggestion: If you lost your BitLocker password and your data stuck you can use BLR BitLocker Data Recovery Tool to get back your data as well as find your BitLocker key.

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