BitLocker not showing up in control panel in Windows 10/8/7

Posted by Tim to BitLocker for Windows Home on March 27th, 2018

BitLocker is not available in Windows 7 Home, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 8/8.1 Home and Windows 10 Home, so you would find BitLocker is not showing up in control panel in Windows 10/8/7 Home computer. In this situation, there is alternative way which can encrypt drive with BitLocker Windows 10/8/7 Home.

M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows is a BitLocker solution which can create an encrypted container which is compatible with BitLocker drive encryption so that the drive is protected by BitLocker on Windows 7/8/10 Home editions.

How to encrypt the drive with BitLocker on Windows 10/8/7 Home

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

Step 2: Launch M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows.

Step 3: Select the drive you want to encrypt.

M3 BitLocker Loader for Windows home

Step 4: Click Encrypt.

Step 5: Follow the wizard to complete the encryption process.

Step 6: Press Enter to start BitLocker drive encryption on the specific drive in Windows 10 Home.

BitLocker for Mac

M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac is a simple tool to unlock, read, write, create, mount BitLocker encrypted drive on macOS Catalina/Mojave/High Sierra/Sierra and Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

BitLocker for Linux

M3 BitLocker Loader for Linux is a command tool to mount, read, write, create BitLocker encrypted drive in Linux/Ubuntu.