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

Thanks for the response.

Seems to have been a bug for a long time then, judging by the number of posts I found about it!

I'm open to that workaround, but I'm a bit worried that it negates the purpose of the Bitlocker. Does putting the recovery password on the scheduled task leave it available for anyone to see (if someone stole my PC, etc)? I guess I'm safe because my primary drive is bitlockered and the task data is held there, but I'd like to know for sure.

Either way, I suppose it would still be better than no bitlocker as I have right now....I'll give it a try.

Thanks again.

No, it does of course not negate the purpose of BL since that script is not accessible offline. It is inside a scheduled task which is stored on the encrypted c: