I'm glad you are removing the key, because from a security perspective that
would be the right thing to do (not leave your key material anywhere near the
machine). However, there is unfortunately no way to enforce that. If you
simply leave the key in the system it will continue to boot momentarily.
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Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...otectyourwi-20
"John Barnett MVP" wrote:
> 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.....
>
>