My internal drives are being treated as removable media by the operating system, resulting in them appearing in the "Safely Eject Media" list, and preventing me from enabling the auto-unlocking bitlocker. One of the drives is my personal data drive which I really want to be protected.

How can I tell the system that these drives are not removable? I have tried the suggestions in other posts (installing Intel Rapid Storage Technology, and setting registry keys) but no luck. (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ef409ece-50b3-4353-b220-7f3436e7d5d4/internal-hard-drives-being-marked-as-removable-for-bitlocker-to-go?forum=w8itprosecurity)

Configuration:

- Gigabyte Z68XP-UD4 mobo

- Windows 8.1

- C: 350GB internal SSD

- D: 2x1TB HD in Raid 0

- E: 2TB external USB HD

- F: 6TB internal HD

Only D: shows up as a fixed disk. Both C: and F: are listed as removable - they are also connected to the same Sata controller. Also, only D: shows up in the Intel RST tool, and I have a weird 0GB Sata drive listed there too.

I really want to enable bitlocker on F:, but I don't want to have to type a password every time I start. It is where I put OneDrive and Dropbox and I'm not sure how they'd like not being able to access the folders on startup either.

Any help greatly appreciated.

• Edited by Chris Caulfield Tuesday, May 26, 2015 6:16 AM fix weird small font spans in html

Hi.

Seen this problem before, will be a bug.

Are you open to a workaround? Then make the drive unlock automatically using a scheduled task.

How? Use

manage-bde -unlock f: -rp 44444-56145-...

together with the recovery key in a batch. Start that batch through a scheduled task that gets started by an "at system startup" trigger.