Windows 10: edrive

How to KEEP e-drive locked into/on my PC or WMP?

:)

 

Bitlocker eDrive not working well on certain notebooks

I am the owner of a Dell XPS with a TCG Opal 2.0 & IEEE1667 compatible Samsung 980 Pro SSD.

Before some of you will tell me not to use hardware encryption because of alleged weaknesses, I am aware of this paper and frankly modern Samsung SSDs were not affected as long as hardware encryption was utilized by TCG Opal. Also software encryption does lower performance, even with AES-NI.

That being said, there seems to be a problem with eDrive when used in Notebooks (such as Dell or XMG) that also allow you to set a password to NVMe drives via the UEFI: Once eDrive is enabled, the UEFI of the Notebook will pop up a password prompt for the eDrive enabled SSD. Obviously the PIN isn't going to work on the UEFI's password prompt.

You might ask "how is this a Windows/Bitlocker problem?".

1. If hardware encryption is used with sedutil, this problem does not occur even though sedutil locks the drive the tcg opal compliant way. If it works with sedutil I don't see why it shouldn't work with Bitlocker eDrive.
   
2. It happens on Dell as well as XMG notebooks and probably other brands as well.
   

I figure eDrive locks the drive in a way that makes it go haywire with the notebook's UEFI.

 

eDrive is not supported on Gigabyte X99 motherboard, despite claims to the contrary

I wanted to close out my question on this thread. Amazingly, Gigabyte produced a new BIOS for me that correctly enabled edrive support. It's now working.

It was a bit of a frustrating ordeal:

• 3/13/2015 - Opened the support request
• 5/12/2015 - Solution received
• 20 - number of emails exchanged, not county many many screenshots and hours and hours or reinstalling windows.

Yeah, this was a huge hassle, but I'm glad Gigabyte came through eventually.

 

eDrive is not supported on Gigabyte X99 motherboard, despite claims to the contrary

That's great! What bios version if I may ask?