BitLocker to Go

[Ozymandias]

I've been playing with BitLocker to Go and although it's all good in Windows 7 the functionality is limited to read only access of the usb BitLocked drive in Vista and XP.

Is this read only issue a limitation of the beta or can we expect this limitation in the final release as well?

 

[Ozymandias]

XP can read BitLocker encrypted drives?

Is BitLocker capable of encrypting non-system drives / partitions? I toyed with it briefly on Vista Ultimate, but ony went as far as encrypting the OS partition.

Yes BitLocker To Go on Windows 7 can encrypt a usb stick. On Windows 7 it is seen as a drive with read/write capability. On XP/Vista you have to run BitLocketToGo.exe on the stick and a small reader app loads that lets you copy files from the stick to another drive (but doesn't let you write to the encrypted stick).