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Why does my Bitlocked External HDD go read-only after I unlock it?
Windows 10, AD-managed environment, WD My Passport external.
We had a new external HDD enter circulation, which per policy has to be bitlocked. This being new, policy is also that it be fully ...
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WD Red 3TB NTFS BitLocker drive suddenly shows up as "2048GB GPT Protective Partition"
Last week my new (<1year), NTFS, single-partition, non-OS, BitLocker-encrypted Western Digital Red 3TB drive stopped mounting, and only shows up in disk manager as a
Basic, Online, 2048.00 GB, ...
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Is it smart to use NTFS compression on a bitlocker encrypted disk?
My intuition says that this should serve no benefit. However I just clean installed windows 10 pro and all of my non-system files are compressed. I'm getting almost 50% compression on my ssd.
If ...
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Can't unlock Bitlocker Encrypted Drive
I have a BitLocker encrypted external HDD without any OS installed in it (have 2 partitions one NTFS other one BitLocker encrypted). I plugged it to pc with usb then i unlocked my drive on Win10 with ...
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Cannot Eject USB Drive With NTFS and Bitlocker
I have an external HDD (WD My Passport Ultra) formatted with NTFS and encrypted with Bitlocker (Windows 10). After plugging in the drive, I can no longer remove the drive using "Eject". The error is "...
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