Bitlocker initiated during initial boot up of the PC, therefore, without
inserting the USB key with the bitlocker code you 'shouldn't' have access to
anything. That is exactly how it works on my system. The whole idea of
Bitlocker is to prevent access by a third party to the information on your
computer. If it only protected Vista access could easily be gained by
booting to XP, so, in a nut shell, Bitlocker is doing the job it was
designed to do.
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"Tel" <johndoe@johndoe.com> wrote in message
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> OK heres my story. I have a dual boot with Vista and Win XP, I loaded Win
> XP first then loaded Vista from within it and all went well upon
> completion. However, when i enable bitlocker (Using a USB falsh drive) I
> can not access windows xp, When I click on it my system just reboots to
> dual boot menu but I can access Vista without no problems. I never had
> this problem before as I have always done a dual boot in this manner. Does
> anyone have a answer to this, many thanks.