Vista - Bitlocker stuck at 0%, says drive "needs conversion"

Hello everybody,

I just reinstalled Vista Ultimate x64, and got everything set up for
BitLocker encryption. I saved the key, restarted, then BitLocker says that
drive C: is being encrypted; however, it never goes past 0%.

I have also tried to skip the "Run Bitlocker system check" option, but I get
an error saying that not enough space is available. I find that extremely
hard to believe, since I have 14.4 out of 30 GB free on my system drive.

When BitLocker says the drive is being encrypted, if I check the BitLocker
screen from Control Panel / Security / BitLocker, next to my system drive it
says "needs conversion". What does that mean?

I had BitLocker working before reinstalling Vista, and I do not have a clue
as to why it is not working now. Does anyone have any idea or solution?

My hard drive setup is as follows (should it be relevant) :

- nForce 4 Controller

- 2 X Western Digital Caviar 160 GB HDD's in RAID 0

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sincerely,

Alex G.

Hardware or software RAID?

"Mr_Nuke" wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I just reinstalled Vista Ultimate x64, and got everything set up for
> BitLocker encryption. I saved the key, restarted, then BitLocker says that
> drive C: is being encrypted; however, it never goes past 0%.
>
> I have also tried to skip the "Run Bitlocker system check" option, but I get
> an error saying that not enough space is available. I find that extremely
> hard to believe, since I have 14.4 out of 30 GB free on my system drive.
>
> When BitLocker says the drive is being encrypted, if I check the BitLocker
> screen from Control Panel / Security / BitLocker, next to my system drive it
> says "needs conversion". What does that mean?
>
> I had BitLocker working before reinstalling Vista, and I do not have a clue
> as to why it is not working now. Does anyone have any idea or solution?
>
> My hard drive setup is as follows (should it be relevant) :
>
> - nForce 4 Controller
>
> - 2 X Western Digital Caviar 160 GB HDD's in RAID 0
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alex G.
>
>

Mr_Nuke:
I have the same encryption concern with raid 1 (mirror) using Nvidia
NF4 onboard raid. Encryption stays at 0% but the Vista partition is hidden
from XP. To verify that the cause was just the raid array I installed Vista
on a non-raid hard drive on the same computer and BitLocker functions
normally. The only other possibility is that there are 4 hard drives, 2 PATA
and 2 SATA, the raid array has the SATA hard drives with only Vista
installed and the earlier operating systems are installed on PATA hard
drives. I don't currently have an extra SATA hard drive to test the
PATA/SATA differences. Have a great day.

--
Dennis Pack
XP x64, Vista Enterprise x64
Office2007
"Mr_Nuke" <Mr_Nuke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F58B3F2E-D0D1-49DC-ADF1-6A5C98659A4B@microsoft.com...
> Hello everybody,
>
> I just reinstalled Vista Ultimate x64, and got everything set up for
> BitLocker encryption. I saved the key, restarted, then BitLocker says that
> drive C: is being encrypted; however, it never goes past 0%.
>
> I have also tried to skip the "Run Bitlocker system check" option, but I
> get
> an error saying that not enough space is available. I find that extremely
> hard to believe, since I have 14.4 out of 30 GB free on my system drive.
>
> When BitLocker says the drive is being encrypted, if I check the BitLocker
> screen from Control Panel / Security / BitLocker, next to my system drive
> it
> says "needs conversion". What does that mean?
>
> I had BitLocker working before reinstalling Vista, and I do not have a
> clue
> as to why it is not working now. Does anyone have any idea or solution?
>
> My hard drive setup is as follows (should it be relevant) :
>
> - nForce 4 Controller
>
> - 2 X Western Digital Caviar 160 GB HDD's in RAID 0
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alex G.
>
>

Dennis,


I had the drive encrypted in Vista before with the same hard-drive
configuration; the problem only appeared after reinstallling Vista (I had
some issues with a "problematic" program). I do not see why it worked then
and it does not now. My assumption is that it is either a BitLocker bug, or
some setting I need to make. Unfortunately for me, having an OEM Vista, I
cannot get support from Microsoft, nor can I afford it (money being the
reason for purchasing the OEM in the first place).

Jesper,

I have the drives set up in hardware RAID. I do not have any PATA drive on
my computer or in the array. Both hard drives are functionally identical.

Sincerely,
Alex G.

Almost one month later, and still no solution.
Any ideas?