But if you are trying to open the BitLocker encrypted drives on older versions of Windows, like XP or Vista, you will need to install ‘ BitLocker To Go Reader ’ from Microsoft. You can encrypt your drives with a password to prevent it from being opened by any unauthorized person.īitLocker encrypted drives should work flawlessly on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. But science always comes with a solution.
Thus, in case it gets lost or is a careless guy like me, who loses pen drives quite often, personal data and files can be at risk with such drives. The only problem with such drives is that anybody can get access to the contents within it by just connecting it to a computer. Now that being said, using pen drives and flash drives is the best way to keep up your files, or simply to carry it from one place to the other. You are invariably giving them the permission to read all your files. Using pen drives and flash drives are even better than cloud storage and backup, as you will always need an internet connection use your cloud storage, and using cloud storage is simply using someone else’s computer to store your files.
Pen drives and flash drives can be the safest room for all such things. May it be carrying your official documents or the movie which you always like. There isn’t any doubt, using pen drives or flash drives is the simplest to carry files from one place to other.