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Thursday, January 12, 2012

HOW TO RELOCK BITLOCKER ENCRYPTED DRIVE IN WINDOWS 7


How to Relock the Bitlocker encrypted drive without restarting system? Adding a Direct option to the right click menu.


Here is a small and easy method for adding "Lock Drive..." to the Explorer right-click context menu.



1) Open Notepad and copy and paste following code, and save it as "Lock.reg"
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\Lock Drive...\command]
@=hex(2):77,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,69,00,70,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,\
00,6d,00,61,00,6e,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,2d,00,62,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,76,00,\
62,00,73,00,20,00,2d,00,6c,00,6f,00,63,00,6b,00,20,00,2d,00,66,00,6f,00,72,\
00,63,00,65,00,64,00,69,00,73,00,6d,00,6f,00,75,00,6e,00,74,00,20,00,25,00,\
31,00,00,00

2) Open Notepad , and paste following code, Save the following script as "manage-bde.vbs"
and copy to the folder "C:\Windows\System32"


Set oWSH = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Args = ""
Last = Wscript.Arguments.Count - 1
For i = 0 To Last
Args = Args & " " & Wscript.Arguments.Item(i)
Next
Args = Replace(Args,"\","")
RetVal = oWSH.Run("manage-bde.exe" & Args,0,True)
Wscript.Quit RetVal


Alternatively, you can download both files from following link:


1.Unzip the file and it will contain two files



2. Click on the file "relock_bde" to update the registry.

3. Move  the file "manage-bde-lock" to "C:\Windows\System32".





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3 comments:

  1. Pradeep The GreatJanuary 3, 2013 at 6:42 PM

    I have worked it around for Windows 8.
    the step-by-step instructions are there in my blog...

    http://nairswindow.blogspot.in/2013/01/bit-locker-in-windows-8-locking-after.html

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2014 at 9:34 AM

    Hello. Thank you for the wonderful write-up on how to re-lock a BitLocker drive in Windows 7.

    Is there any way you could update this method so it works for Windows 8.1? Thanks so much...

    tfreeborn@hotmail.com

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  3. AnonymousMay 13, 2014 at 12:53 PM

    Elevation problem can be fixed by setting the manage-bde.exe to always request for Admin permissions, (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17466681/how-to-run-vbs-as-administrator-from-vbs/23624900#23624900)

    Eg:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    [HKEY_Current_User\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers]
    "c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe"="RUNASADMIN"

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