Why primary mSata hard drive also BitLocker

Pedanka said:

So a secondary internal drive will bitlock a primary hard drive. Lesson learn't :)

Only if it part of the same volume.

I'm surprised from the comments above that bitlocker is auto-enabled - I guess my hardware is too old for that to happen.

It is a good thing though, don't you think? A bit of additional security in case of theft or whatever...

That sounds like a great idea in theory, if Microsoft enforced the recovery key to be uploaded to the account, obviously usb drives can go missing and such, I'm still a little in the dark though, why would the primary volume be encrypted by a separate secondary volume, and if defaulted as such that needs to be communicated by Microsoft.

Perhaps I have this wrong, but in theory shouldn't I have been able to boot into the non bitlocked msata primary drive and decrypt the secondary hard drive with the known password, that seems an anomaly to me.

It depends - you can use mSATA as separate drive or combine it with your main drive to make one logical volume. If they are combined you'd have to encrypt both, if you have them set up as separate then it shouldn't.

I understand, thanks, the odd thing was they were separate, so I guess it shouldn't have happened really, oh well :)