Guest Quilnux Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 Afternoon/evening. I am getting ready to implement bitlocker on both my system drive and 2 other volumes. I have a concern before continuing. In the event that I would ever have a hard drive failure (hopefully not for a very long time) and I had to reload the OS on a new hard drive, would there be a way for me to recover the data from the other 2 volumes on the other physical drive once the OS is up and running? The reason I ask is that I have backups on the secondary hard drive that I plan to encrypt along with the system drive and I want to be sure that in a hard drive failure that I will be able to get access to the backups from a new installation of Vista. Quote
Guest Steve Riley [MSFT] Posted April 21, 2008 Posted April 21, 2008 BitLocker allows you to configure a recovery password for this scenario. Search our website for "Data encryption toolkit" for guidance. Also, if you have Ultimate and you've installed the Ultimate Extras, you can use the online key backup to keep a copy of your recovery password in a digital locker stored at Microsoft. See KB 932926 for more details. -- Steve Riley steve.riley@microsoft.com http://blogs.technet.com/steriley http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com "Quilnux" <Quilnux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E4278417-5FF6-40CB-848F-47F317B8F352@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Afternoon/evening. I am getting ready to implement bitlocker on both my > system drive and 2 other volumes. I have a concern before continuing. > > In the event that I would ever have a hard drive failure (hopefully not > for > a very long time) and I had to reload the OS on a new hard drive, would > there > be a way for me to recover the data from the other 2 volumes on the other > physical drive once the OS is up and running? The reason I ask is that I > have > backups on the secondary hard drive that I plan to encrypt along with the > system drive and I want to be sure that in a hard drive failure that I > will > be able to get access to the backups from a new installation of Vista. </span> Quote
Guest Quilnux Posted April 21, 2008 Posted April 21, 2008 Awesome stuff! Thanks for your help! Have a great week. "Steve Riley [MSFT]" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > BitLocker allows you to configure a recovery password for this scenario. > Search our website for "Data encryption toolkit" for guidance. Also, if you > have Ultimate and you've installed the Ultimate Extras, you can use the > online key backup to keep a copy of your recovery password in a digital > locker stored at Microsoft. See KB 932926 for more details. > > -- > Steve Riley > steve.riley@microsoft.com > http://blogs.technet.com/steriley > http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com > > > > "Quilnux" <Quilnux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:E4278417-5FF6-40CB-848F-47F317B8F352@microsoft.com...<span style="color:green"> > > Afternoon/evening. I am getting ready to implement bitlocker on both my > > system drive and 2 other volumes. I have a concern before continuing. > > > > In the event that I would ever have a hard drive failure (hopefully not > > for > > a very long time) and I had to reload the OS on a new hard drive, would > > there > > be a way for me to recover the data from the other 2 volumes on the other > > physical drive once the OS is up and running? The reason I ask is that I > > have > > backups on the secondary hard drive that I plan to encrypt along with the > > system drive and I want to be sure that in a hard drive failure that I > > will > > be able to get access to the backups from a new installation of Vista. </span> > </span> Quote
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