BitLocker Drive Encryption: Used to encrypt fixed internal drives, including the operating system drive. This requires authentication during boot.
BitLocker To Go: Used to encrypt removable drives such as USB flash drives and external hard drives. They can be unlocked on any Windows or macOS system with the correct password or recovery key.
System requirements for using BitLocker
To use BitLocker in Windows 11, you will need:
Windows 11 Pro, Education or Enterprise edition
Trusted Platform Module TPM 2.0 chip included in denmark telegram data UEFIBIOS
At least two partitions - a system partition and an operating system partition.
Administrator rights
The easiest way to check if your system has a TPM is to use the built-in TPM management tool:
Press Windows+R to open the Run dialog box.
Type tpm.mscand press Enter.
Launch a dialog with the tpm.msc command
If TPM is available and enabled, you will see the message "TPM is ready for use" under the Status section.
TPM Management Tool showing TPM readiness.