Windows 10: Bitlocker on USB flash drive

I have a 256GB USB Micro flash drive that I have plugged into my laptop Microsoft Laptop 3 running Windows 10 Professional.


While I was working today it got locked by BitLocker somehow. I have used this drive for months and it's never been a problem nor did I ever used BitLocker on it.


My C:\ drive is bitlocked and I set it up that way. Somehow, something happened I was working on files located on this USB drive and now BitLocker is turned on!


I have a snippet from July 24 showing that my C:\ drive has BitLocker turned on and my USB drive has BitLocker turned off!


I have important data on this drive and desperately need to access it!


Does anybody know why this happened or how to get around it so I can access it?


Is there some glitch that causes this?


It's kind of funny as well as last week, one of our employees used his laptop one evening with no problem but the next morning he opened it only to see the Blue BitLocker screen. He didn't have the key so we can;t even get through the recovery process. No idea why his laptop did that as well. There must be a reason and hopefully an answer to fix this.


Thanks for any help.


-Bill Jones

:)

 

BitLocker Save to USB Flash missing?


Hi,

I followed the step by step guide on what Brink wrote up below.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...-a.html?filter[1]=Security System Tools

However, when turning ON BitLocker to encrypt the OS drive only, and ask me to where to save the recovery key, I get only the Save to File and not the Save to USB Flash. Has MS taken out the Save to USB selection since WIn 10 version 1511?

I followed all the steps and left BitLocker to its default setting (except for encryption method).

I was able to save the recovery key to a file which was my USB flash drive.

 

USB Flash Drive with Bitlocker

I tried to use bitlocker on a USB Flash drive and about half way through we had a power bump and my PC restarted. Now I can't access the drive. I tried to use bitlocker again but right clicking does not offer bitlocker any more. Is the drive toast or can I retrieve the data I had on it?

 

USB Flash Drive with Bitlocker

See
Use BitLocker Repair Tool to Recover Encrypted Drive in Windows