How to BitLocker encrypt a VHD or VHDX Container file in Windows 10 – TWCN Tech News

You can use BitLocker to encrypt a VHD or VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk) file mounted as a drive. In this post, we will show you how to create a portable BitLocker encrypted container file using a mounted VHD or VHDX file in Windows 10.

Launch File Explorer, right-click the fixed data drive(eg. E: ) for the mounted VHD or VHDX file, and click Turn on BitLocker.

Select Use a password to unlock the drive. Enter the password you want to use to unlock the drive with and click Next.

Select how you want to back up your BitLocker recovery keyfor this drive, and clickNext.

The options are:

The Microsoft accountoption is only available when you aresigned in to Windows 10 with a Microsoft account. It will save the BitLocker recovery key to yourOneDrive account online.

Select the radio button for how much of your drive to encrypt. The Encrypt entire drive option is recommended. Click Next.

Select the radio button for which encryption mode New encryption mode(XTS-AES 128-bit) orCompatible mode (AES-CBC 128-bit) to use for the VHD or VHDX drive, and click Next.

Click Start encrypting when ready.

The VHDX container file will now start encrypting.

When encryption has completed, youll get a prompt. Click onClose.

Thats it, folks!

Hope this post on how to encrypt a VHD or VHDX container file was easy to understand.

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