BitLocker is missing on Windows 10/8/7 Home & 7 Professional

Posted by Tim to BitLocker for Windows Home on August 28th, 2018

BitLocker is a full disk encryption feature included with selected editions of Windows Vista and later. It is designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volume. By default it uses the AES encryption algorithm in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode with a 128-bit or 256-bit key.

BitLocker is available in Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise, Windows 8/8.1 Professional and Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise, so BitLocker is missing on Windows 10 Home, Windows 7 Home, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8/8.1 Home. If BitLocker is missing, we cannot encrypt the drive with BitLocker. Until now, BitLocker is the mostly safe to protect the data. In this situation, how to encrypt hard drive and external drive with BitLocker?

M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows is a BitLocker solution which can create an encrypted container which is compatible with BitLocker drive encryption so that the drive is protected by BitLocker on Windows 7/8/10 Home editions.

M3 BitLocker Loader is a BitLocker cross platform solution for Windows, Mac and Linux users, M3 BitLocker Loader has M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows, M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac and M3 BitLocker Loader for Linux with different functions to meet different users' needs.

How to encrypt the drive with BitLocker on Windows 10/8/7 Home

Step 1: Download and install M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows on Windows computer.

Step 2: Launch M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows.

Step 3: Select the drive you want to encrypt.

Step 4: Click Encrypt.

Step 5: Follow the wizard to complete the encryption process.

Step 6: Press Enter to start BitLocker drive encryption on the specific drive in Windows 10/8/7 Home.

BitLocker for Mac

M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac is a simple tool to unlock, read, write, create, mount BitLocker encrypted drive on macOS 10.15 Catalina/10.14 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.