Internal hard drives identified as removable

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
May 26th, 2015 6:14am

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