Brilliant, that's worked. Thanks very much for your help :)

Allow Bitlocker without a compatible TPM: ticked
Configure TPM startup: Allow TPM
Configure TPM startup PIN: Require startup PIN with TPM
Configure TPM startup key: Allow startup key with TPM...

I do yes - I had to enable 'Require additional authentication at startup' in order to enable PIN on boot. Do you think if I disabled that I could then encrypt the K drive and re-enable it afterwards?

Hi

I've just replaced my laptop. Both old and new had / have two fixed drives - C drive with the OS one and then a second fixed local drive (mapped as K) that I want to use for backups.

On my...

I've got Bitlocker working without the need for TPM or USB. Worked fine once I set the group policy to allow it. All it insisted on doing was saving my passphrase to an external drive before...

I had problems with VirtualBox too, but it's worked a dream with the VMWare Player (free version).

Many thanks, worked a treat!

Yep, have just installed it under VMWare and got full screen, something I couldn't do in VB. Really pleased :)

Useful info on VMWare and Hyper-V here. If I want to try the W10 TP in either of those can I re-use the licence key I put into VirtualBox? Or would I need to uninstall from VB first?

Thanks

Is VMWare better than VirtualBox at running as 'full' a full-screen mode as possible?