Unlock bitlocker on home edition

[scheduleX]

I am now encrypting a portable drive on my Windows 10 pro Pc. It's taking freaking long time. Just wondering if I can plug this drive to other PC which is Windows 7/10 home edition and is able to unlock it? If it can't unlock it, any other possible ways to unlock it on home editions?

[EliasNM]

 

There is an app called Bitlocker to go which is a read only, there is a catch though, its works only on the 3 common FAT filesystems.

[scheduleX]

There is an app called Bitlocker to go which is a read only, there is a catch though, its works only on the 3 common FAT filesystems.

Thanks for the reply. After I did a read up on this, I saw this quote below the page of Microsoft's article on Bitlocker to Go.

If you’re running Windows 7 and want to encrypt drives in BitLocker, you must have the Windows 7 Enterprise edition or Windows 7 Ultimate edition. However, you can open and modify encrypted drives in any edition of Windows 7.

 

So this means other editions will have no problem to decrypt it?

[EliasNM]

 

Correct.