Windows 10: Enabling Bitlocker Full Disk Encryption on a drive w 2 partitions?

Hi, I would like to enable Bitlocker on my workstation (AMD 3900X) + SSD Nvme Samsung 970 Evo Plus)
I do have a TPM chip for my Asus MB but it's not plugged in yet.

I have 2 partitions on my SSD C: (Win 10 Pro 20H2 + programs) and D: (data)

How can I proceed to make a full disk encryption? I can only see encryption options for partitions in Bitlocker settings.

I would like to be able to unlock the whole drive with my PIN and be done with it.
Thanks

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Bitlocker turned itself off, Samsung Magician Says Encryption enabled


Getting h/w encryption on my laptop has been a bit of a nightmare, but I thought I had it working.... Here is what I did:

• Installed M.2 Samsung 850 evo drive
• Installed samsung magician, and set Encryption to Ready to Enable.
• Removed existing HDD
• Ran samsung secure erase from DVD.
• Installed Win10
• Installed Samsung Magician (It said Encryption enabled, finally!)
• Turned on Bitlocker. It did not prompt me for how much of the drive to encrypt, which (I was told) means that it is using hardware encryption of the drive.
• Added the HDD back.
• Updated all my drivers to latest versions for my laptop (Asus GL552VW), including Intel RST drivers (14.x)

After doing all that I just noticed that BitLocker is turned off on my C: drive (the m.2 drive)! I looked in Magician and it still says Encryption is enabled. So I went into Bitlocker to turn it on again for the drive. But now it is prompting me to encrypt used space, or whole disk, which means it isn't using h/w encryption.

What am I doing wrong here? Do I need to enable Secure Boot in BIOS? I have read that the Intel RST drivers can cause problems, but I thought that was only with older versions? Is IRST still an problem?

Edit: When I look in the Disk Management took, I see the C: partition of Disk 1 says: NTFS(Bitlocker Encrypted)., But in Bitlocker Drive Encryption tool it says it is off. Manage-BDE -status c: says that there is no encryption. Really confused now.

 

BitLocker Encrypted Hard Drive to MAC

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. I regret the inconvenience caused to you. Let me help you.



I suggest you to perform below mentioned steps to disable BitLocker.

To disable BitLocker I would suggest you try the following steps and see if it helps.

• 
  Press Windows key + X and click on
  Control Panel.
  
• 
  Change View by from Category
  to Large Icons/Small Icons.
  
• 
  Click on BitLocker Drive Encryption and click on
  Turn BitLocker Off.
  
• 
  Follow on screen instructions. Click on Decrypt the Drive
  when the message appears.
  

I would suggest you click on the link below and refer the following article.

Scenario 12: Turning Off BitLocker Drive Encryption (Windows 7)

Scenario 12: Turning Off BitLocker Drive Encryption (Windows 7)

(You can refer the steps in the above link as they are applicable for Windows 10 as well)



Check if it helps.



I hope the information helps. Please keep us posted on the issue. We will be happy to assist you accordingly.

Thank you.

 

Activate Bitlocker for data drive partition

I upgraded a Win 7 machine last week to Win 10. It had a data partition on the hard drive that was encrypted with Bitlocker (w/o TPM). After the conversion, bitlocker was working for both the partition and USB flash drives that were inserted. However,
yesterday after what appeared to be an Win Update, they ceased working. I was able to resolve the issue for USB flash drives by using the Group Policies to enable bitlocker for portable drives, however, I have not be able to get the bitlocker working for
the Fixed Data Drive partition. What is the trick to get this to work?