Partial bitlocker encryption, now no see-um
I was encrypting a new verbatim portable 500GB USB hard drive, after about 8 hours it got to 95% but I had to go to work and needed my laptop. The bitlocker window said to click on pause prior to removal of drive to prevent any file damage. I assumed this meant it was an ok thing to do if I had too. I would complete the encryption while at work. Well now the drive is no longer recognized, it has a small LCD screen on it and just says "scanning" Im not too worried about being able to complete the encryption, I just want to salvage the drive, it's only a week old. It is not listen in the Win7 drive utility, nor device manager... Any help is greatly appreciated TIA, James
February 19th, 2010 12:35am

Hi James, have you tried this hard drive on a different USB port on the computer? You can also try it on other computers to see the result. If it still does not work, I recommend you contact with hardware vendor as using Bitlocker normally should not cause any hardware corruption.Sean Zhu - MSFT
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February 22nd, 2010 6:23am

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