How to enable/turn on BitLocker drive encryption in Windows 7 Professional

Posted by Tim to BitLocker for Windows Home on March 27th, 2018

Although there is no BitLocker drive encryption feature in Windows 7 Professional, but we can turn on BitLocker in Windows 7 Professional with following solutions:

Solution 1: Upgrade Windows 7 Professional to Windows 7 Ultimate

Windows 7 Home, Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional don't have BitLocker drive encryption feature, but Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise have this feature.

Solution 2: Using the 3rd-party tool

M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows is a BitLocker solution which can turn on BitLocker drive encryption feature in Windows 7 Professional and Windows 10/8/7 Home.

BitLocker for Mac

M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac is a simple tool to unlock, read, write, create, open BitLocker encrypted drive on macOS Catalina/Mojave/High Sierra/Sierra and Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

BitLocker for Linux

M3 BitLocker Loader for Linux is a command tool to mount, read, write, create BitLocker encrypted drive in Linux/Ubuntu.