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How To Encrypt an External Drive on Windows If you have Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, or Education, then you can use Microsoft's own BitLocker software to encrypt your drive.

You can set BitLocker Encryption Method & Cipher Strength in Windows to help prevent unauthorized access to your system files or the physical drive.

Microsoft offers two types of encryption on Windows, Device Encryption and BitLocker. This guide helps you know the difference between them.

I actually can use BitLocker on this drive with USB key to unlock it for "preboot authentication" but it makes the drive slower. Thus I was hoping to use drive's native hardware encryption.

In this guide, we'll show you the steps to enable (and disable) device encryption to protect your data on a computer running the Home edition of Windows 10.

BitLocker also integrates with TPM (Trusted Platform Module), a hardware component built into modern computers for preserving encryption keys and safeguarding against hard drive tampering.

The BitLocker encryption built into higher-end versions of Windows Vista goes a long way toward locking out intruders at the boot-drive level, but it's neither 100% hassle-free nor 100% secure.