Encrypting External Hard Drive Used With Chromebook?

I posted this in the chromebook subforum but I think it probably would be better answered here? So i use bitlocker with my dell xps windows ten laptop. I also use an old chromebook.


So I have a one tb external hard drive that i downloaded lot of videos/files on with the chromebook. Thus after a lot of files, i transfer it to my chromebook by copy and pasting it etc. I only connect it to my chromebook though and not my main dell xps laptop windows ten.


So whenever i connect it to usb port on chromebook, i can access the files. Now how do i encrypt this external hard drive if I only connect it to my chromebook? Do i need to download an encryption program from the google play store? Or do i need to connect it to my windows ten laptop and then encrypt it with say bitlocker? But when i connect the external hard drive to my chromebook, how would it ask me for a bitlocker password then since it doesn't use windows?

 

Chromebooks don't play well with software encryption of external drives.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370372
Last updated Nov 2020 - Still a missing feature.

 

justinpaulyrondrew, heard about this thing called Google? Try it someday.

Anyway, all one needs to know about the subject > https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1474501

 

AFAIK Bitlocker is the MOST dangerous setup you can do to your computer it protects nothing and the user will they themselves lock themselves out.

 

I hold the 100% opposite opinion.

 

@StormJumper @6730b I'm in the middle - I've seen more than a handful of "I enabled whatLocker?", but then having the key sitting and waiting for the person in their Microsoft Account.

But I don't like Bitlocker for unmanaged users / normal people. It's a mess if you don't know *exactly* what you are doing, and makes the occasional problems a nightmare if you aren't keeping an eye on backups and that precious recovery key.

 

For me any kinda encryption unless your CIA, NSA, KGB you don't need to do that. If they want your data they can already phish it out of you already.

 

I wouldn't touch any of Microsoft's tool for so called security http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...nd-announcements.826887/page-68#post-11040315

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