I locked my laptop hard drive disk using Microsoft BitLocker.now I install win 10 and forget my password.i don't have BitLocker recovery key so how I will open that drive please help me.
Thanks.
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Sorry, but without either the password or recovery key the drive cannot be unlocked.
This is BitLocker doing what it was designed to do.
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Can i create a partition on my harddrive and then put bilocker encryption on it and then some how setup my desktop windows application such that it can access that drive but at the same time no user or atleast no user without admin privileges is able to see the contents of that drive,
But my desktop application should be able to access the bitlicker drive data irrespective of which user has logged in the system,
I have already looked into bit locker and how it encrypts and decrypts files but no where i have found a bitlocker API for using it within some othet app. Now I doubt if its even possible with bit locker to be used in this way
It is impossible to access bitlocker from another API. If there was another option, BitLocker security would have compromised. Microsoft has left no ways to open it. You may get some folder lock applications but they will also not allow you to set a program to access files within the folder when its locked. But you can try googling this, it will serve the purpose. Bitlocker is highly encrypted, in case you lose your password and key and there is no backup, there is almost impossible to access that part of your drive.
Hope that helps!
Fellow Forum Members,
How does one create a System Image of an entire Windows10 installation onto a 128GB thumb drive? I tried doing it through the Windows 10 System Image tool but it sees a thumb drive as an invalid storage device. Then I Googled the subject and learned I need to convert the thumb drive to a Local Disk. Can anyone out there recommend the best app to use to convert a thumb drive to a Local Disk?
Another option I learned about is to backup to a network location and convert the thumb drive to a network drive. However, I am unable to find any info that will show me how to convert my thumb drive to a network drive.
My goal is to install my thumb drive and transfer it over to my blank SSD drive if I ever have to rebuild it in the future.
Any info will be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.
First, I think you should plug your thumb drive into another computer to confirm that your thumb drive is available. And if it is normal, there is something wrong with the Windows 10 system image tool. I recommend a perfect backup software - AOMEI Backupper which can create a system image of an entire Windows 10 installation. You can just download this freeware, install and launch it. Then you follow the wizard of System Backup function of AOMEI Backupper. What need to pay attention to is you must plug your thumb drive into your computer before launch AOMEI Backupper, just to confirming the device can be detected.
Is there any way to make a file automatically run when USB or hard drive is plugged to a computer?
I have tried with the autorun.inf file, but the function has been removed in win 7 and 8.
Microsoft has disabled this feature by default on 'non-optical drives' from Windows 7 and onward in order to reduce chances of malware being run. This was replaced with the 'AutoPlay' prompt, which asks the user what they would like to do before executing any applications.
A common malware attack against businesses is to leave a USB drive where an unsuspecting employee will find it. Usually curiosity gets the better of the employee and they insert the newly-found USB drive into their company computer to "see whats on it". If the computer allows any program to run when the drive is mounted (as autorun.inf used to allow) then a virus can execute immediately without any further user input.
Here's some more in-depth reading on the subject - http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2009/04/28/autorun-changes-in-windows-7.aspx
I'd like to boot VirtualBox to the external hard drive I have that runs Windows 8 To Go, as the computer running virtual box is one that I can't boot to the drive during certain hours, but I'd still like to be able to interact with the OS on that drive.
I found a guide for creating a raw VM DK disk file for my external drive, and ran the commands for it in an administrator command prompt, which was listed as a requirement in the article I was reading.
At first, I'd boot to the drive with my VirtualBox machine, and it would ask me to enter the BitLocker encryption password.
I'd enter it, and before the spinning circles of the Windows loading logo would make a complete rotation, VBox would give me an error popup saying "Error: VERR_ACCESS DENIED".
I researched the issue a bit online and found that some users had resolved this issue by turning on 'Use host I/O cache' on the VirtualBox Storage controller.
I tried this, and the machine did indeed make it farther and stopped displaying an error message, only now it stays on the windows loading screen indefinitely, or may even restart itself.
I checked the log file and am seeing several non-displayed error messages of 'VERR_ACCESS DENIED".
Running virtual box itself as an administrator has had no effect.
Has anyone else tried this successfully? Does anyone have any tips?
I'd appreciate productive suggestions instead of criticism against 'why' I'm doing something.
Thank you!
As I understand it, Tuxera has a community version of its ntfs-3g NTFS driver for *nix which has full source for download. How come MS still regards NTFS as a trade secret?