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