Vista - Bitlocker and TPM

Hi All,
I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 and apperently it does not have a TPM chip.
Does anyone know how to install Bitlocker without that feature?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Gary
IT Services
BTAS

This article is mostly about a different problem that you can now solve with
the Bitlocker Disk Preparation Tool, but it also shows how to enable
BitLocker in the absence of a TPM:

http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...ter_3F00_.aspx


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Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...otectyourwi-20


"greed03" wrote:

> Hi All,
> I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 and apperently it does not have a TPM chip.
> Does anyone know how to install Bitlocker without that feature?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
> IT Services
> BTAS

"greed03" <greed03@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FD4FBEE1-BA38-422F-ACCD-F8D28813A071@microsoft.com...
> Hi All,
> I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 and apperently it does not have a TPM chip.
> Does anyone know how to install Bitlocker without that feature?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Yes, you can use a usb key to authenticate at boot.
But your BIOS needs to support reading usb devices at boot.
It's very easy to do & find instructions on google.

Thanks Jesper!
Worked as advertised!

Gary

"Jesper" wrote:

> This article is mostly about a different problem that you can now solve with
> the Bitlocker Disk Preparation Tool, but it also shows how to enable
> BitLocker in the absence of a TPM:
>
> http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...ter_3F00_.aspx
>
>
> ---
> Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...otectyourwi-20
>
>
> "greed03" wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 and apperently it does not have a TPM chip.
> > Does anyone know how to install Bitlocker without that feature?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gary
> > IT Services
> > BTAS

Gary - just fyi that I have an I9400 and Bitlocker works fine on it (once you
make the local security policy change as per the Bitlocker doco to allow it to
work without TPM)

> *I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 and apperently it does not have a TPM chip.*
> Does anyone know how to install Bitlocker without that feature?

Neil Pike. Protech Computing Ltd
http://www.linkedin.com/in/neilpike