Turn On or Off BitLocker for Operating System Drive in Windows 10  

Got a job offer to work at home, failed the SSD drive test, BitLocker is enable , cant i just use V DRIVE without encryption ?
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Bench Virgin said:

Got a job offer to work at home, failed the SSD drive test, BitLocker is enable , cant i just use V DRIVE without encryption ?
Thanks'

Hello mate,

I'm not sure what you mean by "V DRIVE", but you don't have to encrypt the drive if you don't want to.

Just to verify, did you mean for Device Encryption instead of BitLocker?

How to Turn On or Off Device Encryption in Windows 10

Brink said:

Hello mate,

I'm not sure what you mean by "V DRIVE", but you don't have to encrypt the drive if you don't want to.

Just to verify, did you mean for Device Encryption instead of BitLocker?

How to Turn On or Off Device Encryption in Windows 10

Virtual drive , sorry
Also it is Device Encryption , will go to that link , thank you!
Just moved from legacy to UEFI ,good to go !

Bench Virgin said:

Virtual drive , sorry
Also it is Device Encryption , will go to that link , thank you!
Just moved from legacy to UEFI ,good to go !

kevvyb said:

Firstly thank you very much for this post!

I had have just followed, or so I thought the steps to set up TPM and PIN on my O/S drive. I have also configured the GP to allow enhanced PINs on the O/S drive. These are the only two policies enabled in the whole Bitlocker Group Policy folder, the others are all 'not configured'. But when I turn on Bitlocker I get an error message that Bitlocker startup options are in conflict. I have looked at the steps again and I cannot see what is wrong.

Can you please advise, here are my settings:

Hello,

Test with the policy settings below.

kevvyb said:

Thank you so much for the very quick response. That has worked.

May I just ask one more related question? Someone on here asserted that SSDs are vulnerable to data recovery when with data already saved to the drive. i.e. that the SSD should be wiped and encrypted before adding any data. It sounded like this was a not based on very much and the poster has not come back to back the assertions up. Do you think there is any validity to this?

It shouldn't be an issue if you select to encrypt the entire drive and not just used space.

kevvyb said:

Thank you. I selected entire disk and after restart by the time I looked at the progress it had almost completed. Is that normal with SSDs? (500GB)

SSDs are faster, but it really just depends on how much actual data has to be encrypted for how long it may take.