Whilst transferring files from my 8.1 machine to a seagate hdd, when I attempted to read that drive on my windows 7 machine it said it was locked by bitlocker. I hadn't heard of bitlocker and never locked the drive in the first place.
I could still access the drive on the 8.1 machine however so I bought another drive and was able to copy my stuff from one drive to the other on the 8.1 machine. This time the new drive wan't locked. The old drive is still inaccessible except on the 8.1 machine.
The same thing has now happened again on the new drive. It too is bit locked without me requesting it. This is a serious bug and I am surprised you guys don't know about it. I think it might have been caused by me unplugging the the drive without using the remove drive option on the task bar but whatever, it shouldn't have locked my drive.
I don't think it is actually encrypted because it doesn't even ask me for a key, but it is still unavailable on another computer. It has probably just been corrupted by 8.1
One final point. If I try to do a Dir on the drive in the command prompt it says:
"The bitlocker metadata for the encrypted drive is not valid", further indicating that some sort of system error has occurred. A question. Since the drive can still be viewed on the 8.1 machine, if I reformat it from that machine, will it then remove the corrupted bitlocker metadata?
This really is a serious issue and needs to be sorted quickly. Thanks