Having trouble with BitLocker To Go on USB drives in Windows 10
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I just recently found out about BitLocker To Go and encrypting USB drives, so I tried it out on a spare 16GB ADATA drive and it worked well. I just had to start up the BitLocker Drive Encryption service in Windows and then right click and enable it on the drive and set password, etc.
Next, I grabbed a couple brand-new Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 (32GB) drives and attempted to encrypt those - but to my surprise, it didn't seem to be an option. The Windows 10 BitLocker menu didn't show the USB drive as an option and I didn't have the BitLocker option when right-clicking the USB drive. Strange I thought. So I grabbed a couple more random drives I had laying around and it didn't seem like anything would work with BitLocker.
Finally, I grabbed 2 more additional 16GB ADATA drives and tried those and only one of them showed up in BitLocker and would encrypt.
So now I'm just trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Are there only certain drives that will work with BL? Does the drive need to be normal formatted (not quick format) or anything else? BTW I did try that but it didn't seem to make a difference.
I've tried on 3 different computers running Windows 10 Pro (at work and at home), all connected directly to USB 3 ports on the PC. Doesn't seem to matter.
Any thoughts???
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Never mind - found out that it was one of the October Windows updates that knocked out Bit Locker to go on USB flash drives...
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Recently, I have come across this same issue. I have it posted in spiceworks forum asking for a resolution. The only thing I have found is to do a system restore back prior to the Oct20 windows debacle and then regedit the pc to NOT take windows updates, which is a bad thing in itself. So, my question is why can't we just go back to win7? LOLOL
