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Encrypted disk image using BitLocker on Windows

Encrypted disk image using BitLocker on Windows

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Encrypted disk image using BitLocker on Windows

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- [Instructor] In the same way that we can use BitLocker to secure a removable or built-in disk, we can also use it to protect a disk image on a Windows system. To start, we'll need to make a disk image. And we can do that on Windows using the disk management interface. I'll open that up by going to the Start menu. And finding, Create and format hard disk partitions. Here in the menu bar, I'll click Action, and then Create VHD. VHD stands for Virtual Hard Disk. And VHDs are disk images. Files which contain a file system that can be mounted just like a regular disk. This option brings up a window where we can create a VHD file. And here we have some options. I can set the path including the name of the disk image file. Then I need to set what size disk the file represents. This will be the maximum amount of information this file can contain. I'll make this one, let's say, one gigabyte. Then we have two choices of…

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