Windows 10: bitlocker auto-unlock reseting to off after removable usb removed.

after unlocking and setting auto-unlock to on for a USB flash drive, after removing the drive, the auto-unlock is reset to off every time and requires a password to unlock.

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Enable Bitlocker auto-unlock without system drive encryption

1. turn off bitlocker on the drive you want to auto-unlock
   
2. mount this drive as a removable drive
   i.e plug it into a usb attached drive unit such as StarTech or many others
   
3. boot the system and bitlock the drive and turn on auto-unlock
   
4. shutdown the system
   
5. mount the drive as a permanent drive
   
6. reboot the system and the drive will auto-unlock because windows now thinks
   that it is a removable drive
   

Works For Me with no problems

 

Fixed Drive Detected as Removable in Bitlocker

My system has 2 data drives in addition to the boot drive which is SSD. While windows detects both drives as fixed drives Bitlocker reports one of the drives as removable and so I cannot set it to auto-unlock. Any suggestions on how to change this behavior
and make Bitlocker report correctly?

 

Bitlocker on removable drive

I read through the below tutorial on how to encrypt USB removable data drives.
Turn On or Off BitLocker for Removable Data Drives in Windows 10

I would like to know if there is a way to use a PIN instead of a password to unlock a Bitlocker encrypted USB removable drive?