How to Determine If Your Hard Disk Is Encrypted with BitLocker

⚜️ Your hard disk could be BitLocker encrypted without your knowledge.

⚜️ Is your hard disk encrypted?
Your computer’s hard drive might be encrypted with BitLocker without you knowing it. In Windows Pro, you’ll see a padlock icon. In Windows Home, check “Device encryption” under Privacy & security settings. Make sure you can access your recovery key at aka.ms/myrecoverykey, or you could lose everything!

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Chapters
0:00 Is My Hard Disk BitLocker-Encrypted?
0:30 Start with Windows Pro
1:10 Checking Windows Home
2:00 Encryption set up by default
3:45 Getting the recovery key
5:20 Turn off device encryption

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