Comments on: Review: Windows 7 BitLocker

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:40:30 +0000

how would you use this tool if one has Vista and Windows 7 already dual booted but want to enable BL in each OS?

By: Matas

Matas — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:03:54 +0000

Very informative, thanks a lot Michael.

By: BitLocker

BitLocker — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:25:36 +0000

Win7 Bitlocker is easy to use especially for using removable dat devices.
Actually I’m using the TrueCrpt and it seems to be a perfect tool for using on Vista and Win7 taking the place of Private Folder in XP.
But both new tools are more secure and using a true encryption system.
A short review of mine at my blog post http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/windows-7-bitlocker-tool-and-bitlocker-password-recovery.aspx

Thanks for sharing

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:53:03 +0000

I did multiple Custom Clean Installations on Windows Vista Bitlocker enabled laptops (using TPM protection). Migrated the Profiles using USMT Hardlink Migration (went from x86 to x64).

Bitlocker rocks!

By: Jokin

Jokin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:35:59 +0000

I have tried bitlocker some days with windows 7 beta (build 7022) and have a lot of problem with it, always related to the lack of free space in the encrypted drive. I couldn’t decompress big zipped files ( microsoft virtual pc images downloaded from microsoft.com ) nor get to build some projects with visual studio, it says that there is not enough space to create the target binaries. Have to see how it works in the final version, but right now it’s a pain.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:25:20 +0000

I think they simply want to convince corporate customers that Volume Licensing makes sense. In my view, security-related features should be included in all Windows editions.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:52:51 +0000

Any idea what the reasoning behind not including it in Professional was? Seems like that’s where it’s most likely to get the use, seeing as how you can’t really buy laptops with Enterprise installed, and an organization that is most likely to use it would probably be using the Volume Licensing.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:58:12 +0000

anonymuos, I absolutely agree.

By: anonymuos

anonymuos — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:08:21 +0000

MS made the same mistake with 7 wrt BitLocker. It should have been part of at least Professional.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:26:37 +0000

John, thanks for sharing your experiences with TrueCrypt. However, I am using it for several years and I never experienced any problems.

Bob, that is interesting. Perhaps Microsoft will change this until the final release.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:31:43 +0000

From my test installations of Win7 Home Premium, a 200MB System Partition is created by default if you install to unallocated space and there’s an extra slot in the partition table available.

Considering how unlikely a non-Ultimate user will ever upgrade to Ultimate *and* use Bitlocker, it’s a waste of a partition table entry (there are only 4 with MBR disks) if you want to install other O/S’s without using a virtual machine. There should be an installation option to skip this step.

By: John W. Anderson

John W. Anderson — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:07:48 +0000

Our corporate experience with TrueCrypt has been abysmal. It is unstable at times, performs poorly in some configurations, and doesn’t handle Windows errors well. In one case a BSOD caused us to lose the partition.

Open Source is what it is, a mixed bag, and quality questionable versus commercial software. It will never interoperate as well, either. Sorry to irritate you fanboys, but that’s reality in the corporate big leagues.