May 23rd, 2017

What do these hard drive icons mean?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Here are the different icon adornments for hard drives that may appear in My Computer This PC.

Adornment Meaning
Windows logo (may be combined with other adornments) System drive.
Locked padlock BitLocker locked: Volume is inaccessible.
Unlocked padlock BitLocker on: Drive is encrypted and keys are protected.
Unlocked padlock with yellow warning triangle BitLocker is suspended: Drive is encrypted but everyone has access. This icon is also used to indicate the BitLocker is pre-provisioned.

(Sorry for the broken images earlier. The blog system corrupts the data URIs on upload, and I have to remember to manually fix them.)

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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