This tutorial will show you how to enable/trun on BitLocker for Windows 8 Core (Home) Edition with Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere, mainly including the following aspects:
Windows 8 is an operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) and released on October 26, 2012 for devices such as computers and tablets. There are 4 releases of Windows 8 for different users and devices: Windows 8 Core, Windows 8 Pro, Windows Enterprise and Windows RT. BitLocker was classified as an enterprise feature of Windows by Microsoft, so the full-featured BitLocker only exists in Windows 8 Professional and Enterprise editions, and we cannot use BitLocker to encrypt drives in Windows 8 Core.
In many cases users want to enable BitLocker on Windows 8 Core (Home) Edition. For example, try using BitLocker to encrypt data partitions to protect user's privacy and important data from theft, loss or leaks. But the problem is that Microsoft does not enable the full-featured BitLocker encryption feature in Windows Core (Home) Editions for unknown reasons, so we cannot encrypt partitions with BitLocker in Windows 8 Core (Home) Edition by default. This tutorial will show you how to enable/trun on BitLocker to encrypt drives in Windows 8 Core (Home) Edition with Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere.
Step 1. Download and install Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere.
Step 2. Launch Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere, right-click the drive letter you want to encrypt, then click "Turn On BitLocker".
Step 3. In this step, you are required to specify a password for encrypting the drive, enter the password and click "Next". You should choose a password having a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, spaces, and special symbols. Once the encryption is complete, you can access the drive using this password.
Step 4. Back up BitLocker recovery key, then click "Next" to move on. You can save the recovery key to a file or print a copy of it. Please note that anyone can use the recovery key to gain access to the drive, even if they do not know the password entered in the previous step, so please do not disclose it to others.
Step 5. Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere will now encrypt the contents of the selected drive using BitLocker drive encryption. The encryption process could take a long time to finish depending on the size of the drive, so please be patient to wait. If you don't want to wait until the encryption operation is finished, "Shut down the computer when the operation is completed" option is a good idea. Just check it.
Step 6. After the encryption is complete, click the "Finish" button to close the window.
To sum up, this tutorial focuses on how to use Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere to turn on BitLocker to encrypt drives in Windows 8 Core (Home) Edition step by step. As a professional BitLocker solution for Windows Home, you can also use Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere to decrypting BitLocker encrypted drives, changing password for BitLocker encrypted drives, and so on.
