I've got a Western Digital My Passport SE USB 3.0 hard drive (1 TB). It's worked fine on every Windows 7 machine I plugged it into. The other day I plugged it into an XP machine. It asked if I wanted to format the hard drive (which I didn't). I did some research, downloaded & installed Bitlocker To Go Reader. Still asks if I want to format the hard drive. I tried it on a Vista machine (after installing the reader) & got the same thing. Now, however, when I plug it into any Windows 7 machine, bitlocker doesn't recognize it as an encrypted drive and asks if I want to format it. Please, HELP!!! P.S. Is there a solution other than the Bitlocker Repair Tool? That's apparently only for Vista & I don't have access to a vista machine now.

Was your drive configured with NTFS or FAT? Do you see your disk in disk management? If yes, what is the current status of bitlocker? >manage-bde -status D: where D is the drive letter. Manoj Sehgal

It's formated as NTFS. I do see it in disk management. The status of bitlocker for the hard drive (which is the G drive) is: ERROR: The volume G: could not be opened by BitLocker. This may be because the volume does not exist, or because it is not a valid BitLocker volume. Thanks.

Some other information that might be useful: A bunch of rar files that I recently took off this hard drive before it had this problem are turning out to be corrupted (or certain files within are corrupted). Maybe the hard drive is just dying, which sucks because I just bought it like 3 months ago.

Anyone got any ideas?

Your volume is not protected with bitlocker. Did you ran chkdsk on the volume? Can you try chkdsk in read only mode using command chkdsk G: where G is the drive letter. Manoj Sehgal

I haven't run chkdsk on it yet. I wanted to get some other opinions before I did. Maybe someone has seen this issue before. And the drive IS protected with bitlocker because I did it myself. I do IT support for my company so I'm not new to this.

When I try to run chkdsk on the drive, it says: "The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives." It sees it as an unformatted drive because the whole thing is encrypted. Something got screwed up with Bitlocker.

By the lack of responses, I take it I'm screwed. Gonna have to wipe the drive...