How to unlock the USB flash drive correctly

Almost every modern person uses different kinds of electronic carriers. For all of them, as a rule, compact size, large capacity and quite acceptable reliability in the safety of information are typical.

Sometimes it is very convenient to have encrypted data on a flash drive. What for? Yes, in principle, because we often give this medium, for example, to friends, co-workers or relatives. They throw us photos, some necessary information, films or audiobooks, and on the flash drive, you see, there may be content that outsiders do not generally show.

By installing protection, you can be sure that even if you lose a USB flash drive, then no one can use your confidential information. For example, copies of documents, materials or own know-how.

But every time the same question is disturbed about what will happen if you suddenly forget, lose or can not remember the password you need. How to unlock the USB flash drive? And can it be done at all?

I suggest carefully studying the step-by-step instructions on how to properly unlock the USB flash drive, saving your nerves and time.

For all this procedure you will need: a computer or a laptop and a flash drive with a forgotten password.

The level of complexity of this operation, I would rate as light, designed for a novice user.

1. Initially, when you only create a password, say, the Bitlocker function available both in the Windows Vista operating system and in a more modern Windows 7, use the program's recommendation. It will prompt you to save the required key in one of two ways. First, you can print it out and print it, and secondly, you can save it in a special file.

2. Subsequently, in order for the flash drive to unlock, it will be necessary to use this saved key for further recovery. It should be found. And if you are faced with the fact that you do not know how to unlock a USB flash drive, first of all, start with finding the key that was previously used in the system for this operation. Are you ready?

3. Go to the "My Computer" folder, find the flash drive icon, click on it with the right mouse button. If you did everything correctly, a dialog box will appear on the screen. In it, select the option "Unlock Disk" that we need. As a result, a new window appears and manually enter the recovery key. Although in the event that it is stored on some electronic medium, it can in principle be selected, copied and pasted into the desired field.

4. Have you typed or copied the key? Have you checked once again the correctness of its writing? Now, before unlocking the USB flash drive completely, it's not long at all. Click on the "Done" tab that appears. However, you should not breathe a sigh of relief. Your media is unlocked only temporarily. If you now remove it from your computer, then when you turn it back on you will need to start the entire process listed above from the very beginning. How to be? Let's try, taking into account further prompts of our system, to change the password to a new one.

5. Again refer to the dialog box. But now we already need an option called "Managing Bitlocker". Before you there will be a whole list of actions that you need to perform in turn. First, change your forgotten password. Only after this, the electronic medium will be considered fully unlocked. Secondly, to prevent the situation from repeating the above, save the recovery key in a safe place. In addition, here you can generally delete the password, if you do not need it anymore.

As you yourself could see, finding the answer to the question of how to unlock the USB flash drive was not at all difficult, the main thing is that during the encryption process, remember (and not be too lazy!) To save the key for recovery to a computer or to any available portable device.