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Getting BitLocker to work
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
BitLocker does work, it seems.
My queries to Dell about BitLocker and their OptiPlex 745 corporate desktop paid off, and the company this week sent me a tool to upgrade the Bios firmware of the system.
The upgrade itself is a single executable file that lets you upgrade the Bios from within Windows. This is a welcome relief – the last time I had to patch the Bios of a computer, it involved booting from a system disk, then issuing a series of arcane command line instructions. Just as well – our OptiPlex review unit did not come with a floppy disk to boot from.
I held my breath anxiously while the Dell utility re-booted the computer and applied the update, before re-starting Windows.
Next, I faced another hurdle. BitLocker requires an extra disk partition of at least 1.5GB capacity, and although I had carefully set this up, Windows constantly threw up an error message stating that the disk configuration was incorrect. IT Week Labs blog: Getting BitLocker to work
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