No BitLocker for Thumb Drive? Continued.

Question

Hi Folks:

I'm running Win 10 Pro 2004, installed October 8th.

I asked this question a couple of months ago, but have been unable to follow up on the resolution until now.

The problem I'm having is "Turn on BitLocker" isn't an option when I right click on any thumb drive.

I can turn on BitLocker for my internal drives and I can run BitLocker on thumb drives and internal drives.

I just can't turn it on for a freshly formatted thumb drive.

Here is the original question I posted on October 18th:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/130008/no-bitlocker-for-thumb-drive.html

I'm not seeing any button on that page to push in order to continue that conversation, so I'll pick it up here.

MTG-6756 asked to see the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\FVE

That key isn't present:

Suggestions?

Thanks
Larry

Answer 1

Hi,
You could try using use DISKPART to set the partition you wish to encrypt as INACTIVE. This will allow you to Encrypt with Bitlocker. See below screenshot that shows marking a Partition on a USB Flash Drive as INACTIVE

Then reattach your Thumb Drive.
Please feel free to let us know if you need further assistance.

Best regards.

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