How to enable/turn on BitLocker drive encryption on Windows 8/8.1 Home?

Posted by Tim to BitLocker for Windows Home on April 8th, 2015

I have Windows 8.1 Home edition, not Professional edition. I want to encrypt external drive with BitLocker, how to enable BitLocker on Windows 8.1 Home?

Windows 8/8.1 is same as Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 Home doesn't support BitLocker drive encryption. Although Microsoft doesn't open the BitLocker drive encryption feature in Windows 8/8.1 Home, but there is a alternative way which can turn on BitLocker drive encryption on Windows 8/8.1 Home edition.

M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows is a BitLocker solution which can turn on BitLocker drive encryption on Windows 8/8.1 Home and allow you to encrypt hard drive & external drive on Windows 8/8.1/10/7 Home editions.

Tutorial to turn on BitLocker in Windows 8 Home

Step 1: Download and install M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows on Windows 8 computer.

Step 2: Launch M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows.

Step 3: Select the drive which you want to encrypt.

Step 4: Click Encrypt.

Step 5: Enter the password and then click Next.

Step 6: Save the recovery key and then click Next.

Step 7: Start BitLocker drive encryption on the specific drive in Windows 8 Home.

BitLocker for Mac

M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac is a simple tool to unlock, read/write, mount, open/access BitLocker encrypted drive and encrypt external drive with BitLocker on macOS 10.15/10.14/10.13/10.12/10.11.

BitLocker for Linux

M3 BitLocker Loader for Linux is a command tool to mount, read/write, open/access BitLocker encrypted drive in Linux/Ubuntu and encrypt external drive with BitLocker drive encryption in Linux/Ubuntu.