How do I encrypt My Book Studio on XP

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Dear WD Community Users,

I have a My Book Studio portable drive, which was originally encrypted by BitLocker. It had no issue when I used it with Windows 7 systems. But laterly I had to decrypt the drive since I was not able to read the drive on an XP system. Now the questions is, how can I re-encrypt the drive on the XP system. It seems there is no document on WD website about this.

By the way, I have BitLocker, but I was told by our company’s helpdesk it can only be used on a system that had the chip (forgot the chip’s name). Since the XP system doesn’t have the chip, I can’t encrypt my portable drive. I’m not sure if this si a true statement.

Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

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I saw this in Wikipedia…

The latest version of BitLocker, included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, adds the ability to encrypt removable drives. These can be read, but not written, by Windows XP using Microsoft BitLocker To Go Reader program.

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Thanks, Wayne. It’s much appreciated. Your answer confirms that XP can only have read access to BitLocker encrypted drive.It’s helpful!