Windows 10: Bitlocker insanity - cannot turn off auto unlock

I have two PCs, one with Windows Pro and one with Windows Home

You can only set up and configure Bitlocker on Pro. I have an external SSD which I encrypted with Bitlocker.

I selected the Auto Unlock feature when connecting the SSD to my Windows Home PC, and as you can't manage Bitlocker on Windows Home, it seems that it's impossible to turn off the auto unlock. I tried the cmd method but it says the option is not available.

Any solution to this? Or will Microsoft give me Pro on my second PC?

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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

 

Turning on Bitlocker's auto-unlock on partitioned drive

I have Windows 10 Pro running on a 500GB hard drive which is partitioned into C: for Windows programs and D: where I keep my documents. I want to secure my documents and personal files from unauthorized access.

Anyone with a Linux bootable USB stick can boot a computer from the USB stick and then access all files on the hard drive. To prevent this I have used Bitlocker to encrypt my D: drive. The drive now cannot be accessed if laptop is booted externally.

I now want to turn on "auto-unlock", so that when I boot into Windows through the laptops' Window OS the D: drive is automatically unlocked. When I select "turn on auto-unlock" on the Bitlocker Drive Encryption screen I get the error message "The operating
system drive is not protected by Bitlocker Drive Encryption."

Why will it not allow me auto unlock the drive?

 

Auto-unlock BitLocker "for this user"

I have a laptop running Windows 10 Pro, fully updated. There are several other users on this PC.
Recently, I purchased an external hard disk to back up my “personal” files.
When I used BitLocker to encrypt the HD I learned that the feature I tried to use didn’t work as I thought.
I wanted to set BitLocker to “auto-unlock FOR THIS USER ONLY” and not have the HD files available to the other users.
Instead, it auto-unlocks “FOR THIS PC” and everyone has access to it.
And it remains unlocked even if I sign out; I must either turn off the PC or restart it when I am through.
Worse, this is true even if I don’t use the auto-unlock feature!
I could buy a third-party program to lock my files on the HD, but then why have BitLocker?
Any ideas?



Microsoft, are you listening?