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Bitlocker and hardware encryption

Anonymous
2017-09-19T16:14:02+00:00

I'm trying to enable hardware encryption on my lenovo y50 laptop. My OS is windows 8.1 professional, my hard disk is samsung 850 evo. I prepared the hard disk for encryption (encryption is enabled in samsung firmware). When I try to encrypt the hard drive i get this error: 

This PC's firmware is not capable of supporting hardware encryption. Exception from HRESULT 0x803100BF"

What's causing  this error?

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-09-19T18:34:15+00:00

    I reinstalled the system, using UEFI mode this time. Now it works perfectly fine.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-09-19T16:46:56+00:00

    The Samsung has firmware that can be updated too.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-09-19T16:29:17+00:00

    Yes it can be used. There are many tutorials how to do it. I performed it as i supposed to, but there is a problem with firmware. But what firmware? Bios? My bios is the latest version.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-09-19T16:17:30+00:00

    Have you verified that the 850 Evo can be used with Bitlocker? Not all SSDs can.

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