BitLocker for Second Drive

[Brandon_Byrnes]

I have BitLocker edabled on my C drive and would like to enable it on my second D drive that I use for storage but when I go into BitLocker settings I only see the option to encrypt my primary C drive. How can I enable BitLocker on my second D drive?
Also before I enabled BitLocker I had it setup so I use a pin when I log onto my computer, that hasn’t changed after enableing BitLocker, I would have thought I would have to enter a password like I do for my external drive with BitLocker, so does it just use my pin as the password to decrypt my drive?

[veeg]

Hello

Hopefully some of our members will chime in soon.

@phillpower2

[veeg]

Sorry for the no replies..

@Bruce jmarket @Rustys @gus @Evan Omo @Twitch6000 @Samuria

[jmarket]

Sorry for the delay Brandon, sorry to admit I have not used BitLocker, but if I enter “Encryption” into the windows search box and then choose “Manage BitLocker” from the choices available I get this dialogue.

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[Brandon_Byrnes]

Yeah but for some reason it isn’t showing my second internel drive, only the drive with my OS on it.

[jmarket]

Hi Brandon, whilst we are waiting for others to assist here, can I ask just to clear it up if D Drive is a second physical drive or a separate partition on your system drive?

Is it possible for you to supply a screenshot of your disk Management screen please?
Type diskmgmgmt.msc into the windows search box and then select the same entry at the top of the box. Take a screenshot of the next box to open and try to get the full width of the disk management box if possible

[Brandon_Byrnes]

My D Drive is another physical disk, but it also has the old recovery partitions on it from when I had my OS on that drive before I got my SSD and put my OS on that. I tried to delete those old recovery partitions using disk management but it wouldn’t do it. I also tried extending the D: Storage partition to those recovery partitions but it wouldn’t let me. I’ve attached the Disk Management screenshot.

I know that if I use Diskpart then I can select my D drive and use the clean command to wipe it of all partitions, which I am considering doing, I’ll just have to back up my files from that drive. But since I have my Document, Pictures, and Downloads going to that drive will that get messed up if I format the drive, or will it be fine as long as I keep it as Drive D after formatting it? Also I’m not sure if that EFI partition is from my old OS that was installed on that drive or if it’s from my current OS that I’m running off of my SSD which is disk 1. So i’m kind of scared about deleting that, I don’t want to mess something up.

[jmarket]

What a mess, my advice would be to physically disconnect your D drive, make sure your computer works fine, although there’s no reason why it shouldn’t. Assuming that step proves ok then rescue any data you want from D Drive, then NUKE it. Reformat it and start again with D drive. Copy the rescued data back to D Drive.

Have a read of THIS too, may save you reformatting? But DO backup your data first, just in case.

Guess you could also try something like mini tool partition wizard, or similar?

Definitely would not pursue the BitLocker issue until you attend to that D Drive mess you currently have

Who knows you may even be able to use BitLocker on it then?

[Brandon_Byrnes]

What a mess, my advice would be to physically disconnect your D drive, make sure your computer works fine, although there’s no reason why it shouldn’t. Assuming that step proves ok then rescue any data you want from D Drive, then NUKE it. Reformat it and start again with D drive. Copy the rescued data back to D Drive.

Have a read of THIS too, may save you reformatting? But DO backup your data first, just in case.

Guess you could also try something like mini tool partition wizard, or similar?

Definitely would not pursue the BitLocker issue until you attend to that D Drive mess you currently have

Who knows you may even be able to use BitLocker on it then?

I’m having so many issues with this laptop, its not even funny, along with the bitlocker issue I am also having problems with BSODs and then a new issue poped up today after a Windows update last night, now for some reason random weird things are popping up over the icons on my desktop, for example I have a folder for movies and use a video camera iccon, well every icon on my desktop that is a shortcut for some reason the little arrow that shows it being a short cut changed to the video camera icon, and just about 5 minutes ago those shortcut arrows changed to little ex’s like I have on my Google Drive synced folder. So I am just thinking of backing up all of my data then wiping the D drive and wiping and reinstalling WIndows on my primary SSD . I didn’t have any of these issues until I installed this SSD. If you want to know about my BSOD issues I have a thread that I posted about that in the Windows 10 forum which is currently active.

[jmarket]

You could roll back the update, or system restore before the update.
Please be advised to backup any data you value.

Can you also advise to make and model of this laptop?

[Brandon_Byrnes]

You could roll back the update, or system restore before the update.
Please be advised to backup any data you value.

Can you also advise to make and model of this laptop?

Its a HP ProBook 450 G3.

[veeg]

Any updates?

@gus

[jmarket]

According to this link, this machine has only one hard drive???

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/laptops/product-detail.html?oid=7834555#!tab=specs

Irrespective of where this D drive is still would recommend reformat of it.

[veeg]

Any updates for us?

[Brandon_Byrnes]

sorry for the delay. I haven;t gotten around to wiping second drive. I think i may do that on Saturday when i;m off work.