I only used Bitlocker when I was dual booting XP with Vista and I have to
say that on every single occasion that I have enabled bitlocker it has
'always' asked me to remove the USB flash drive. I simply assumed that this
was the normal procedure so have never queried it.
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"This is so annoying....." <Thisissoannoying@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:02DB7EF8-5960-4D7D-BC9A-7C9B891C0957@microsoft.com...
> Hey all,
>
> I'm having a little bit of trouble with BitLocker. I don't have TPM and
> have enabled it to use a USB flash drive. Well, the actual encryption part
> is
> working fine, but every time I start up, it makes me "Remove Key Storage
> Media" before it will continue the start up process. I enabled BitLocker
> before doing a clean install and it worked fine one the last
> installation - I
> didn't have to remove it or anything. I don't really think it makes sense
> that I should have to remove it so that makes me a little concerned and it
> also means that I can't leave my computer alone to start up. Is there any
> way
> to make it so that I don't have to remove the flash drive while starting
> up?
> Thanks
>
> ~This is so annoying.....