back up your file encryption key

After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message

After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all stoked to do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and store my key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and it says it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I can live without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running RAID. If not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to me, but hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
"Randy" wrote:

BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

Hi, this is an EFS (per file encryption) prompt and not related to BitLocker (volume encryption). Not sure why you are getting this if you do not have any files encrypted. - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"Randy" wrote in message

BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

How are your 2 volumes configured? Is the system partition (the one containing bootmgr) different to the OS partition (the one containing the Windows directory) ? Thanks - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message

Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all stoked to do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and store my key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and it says it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I can live without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running RAID. If not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to me, but hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
"Randy" wrote:
BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

Both are formatted with NTFS and both are the same size, but in a dual-boot environment. Both partitions are primary drives for their OS's. Any hep is appreaciated and thanks thus far!!
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:

How are your 2 volumes configured? Is the system partition (the one containing bootmgr) different to the OS partition (the one containing the Windows directory) ? Thanks - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all stoked to do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and store my key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and it says it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I can live without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running RAID. If not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to me, but hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
"Randy" wrote:
BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

A typical functioning setup is described in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-97b4d762cf31.mspx
The keys to getting this to work is, from the perspective of the Vista OS, The Vista OS *IS NOT* on the/an active partition. Determine this by running "diskmgmt.msc" and verifying that the status for the Vista partition says: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and not Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump)
The "System" indicates that it uses "BOOTMGR" and related files from the same partition during boot. The key to BitLocker being functional is that BOOTMGR, and all files that BOOTMGR accesses (under Boot directory) lives on a different partition then the Vista OS. For Beta 2, if these are on the same partition, its a pain to get things reconfigured after the fact. We're working on a solution for RC1 to fix that.
For me personally, when configuring dual-boot XP/Vista, one of the techniques I do is the following: (1) Install XP first. During installing of XP, allocate only the first half of the disk space to XP, leaving the second half of the disk as "unused space". After install, I allocate the remaining space a primary basic partition. Primary in this case means the location of the partition is stored in the MBR. (2) Install Vista second, allowing it to use the second primary partition.
There are many ways to get here, but the upshot is that there is a primary partition marked "active", and it is not the partition that Vista is being installed to.
Let me know if this helps or not.
- Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message

Both are formatted with NTFS and both are the same size, but in a dual-boot environment. Both partitions are primary drives for their OS's. Any hep is appreaciated and thanks thus far!!
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
How are your 2 volumes configured? Is the system partition (the one containing bootmgr) different to the OS partition (the one containing the Windows directory) ? Thanks - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all stoked to do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and store my key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and it says it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I can live without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running RAID. If not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to me, but hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
"Randy" wrote:
BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

I have it just like you said it whould be and when I click ecrypt it says unable to encrypt the drive and the red circle with an X in there appears after I click the encrypt button. I'm thinking this has something to do with the fact I am running RAID and split the RAID array array into two volumes? I dunno, just some more insight into it. I got it to work on my laptop that's running one SATA drive with Vista Ultimate 32-bit Beta 2. But thanks so far...Sooner or later we'll slay the dragon, lol.
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:

A typical functioning setup is described in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-97b4d762cf31.mspx
The keys to getting this to work is, from the perspective of the Vista OS, The Vista OS *IS NOT* on the/an active partition. Determine this by running "diskmgmt.msc" and verifying that the status for the Vista partition says: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and not Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump)
The "System" indicates that it uses "BOOTMGR" and related files from the same partition during boot. The key to BitLocker being functional is that BOOTMGR, and all files that BOOTMGR accesses (under Boot directory) lives on a different partition then the Vista OS. For Beta 2, if these are on the same partition, its a pain to get things reconfigured after the fact. We're working on a solution for RC1 to fix that.
For me personally, when configuring dual-boot XP/Vista, one of the techniques I do is the following: (1) Install XP first. During installing of XP, allocate only the first half of the disk space to XP, leaving the second half of the disk as "unused space". After install, I allocate the remaining space a primary basic partition. Primary in this case means the location of the partition is stored in the MBR. (2) Install Vista second, allowing it to use the second primary partition.
There are many ways to get here, but the upshot is that there is a primary partition marked "active", and it is not the partition that Vista is being installed to.
Let me know if this helps or not.
- Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Both are formatted with NTFS and both are the same size, but in a dual-boot environment. Both partitions are primary drives for their OS's. Any hep is appreaciated and thanks thus far!!
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
How are your 2 volumes configured? Is the system partition (the one containing bootmgr) different to the OS partition (the one containing the Windows directory) ? Thanks - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all stoked to do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and store my key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and it says it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I can live without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running RAID. If not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to me, but hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
"Randy" wrote:
BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

Hoping this has nothing to do with RAID, as BitLocker works with the logical volume for the very purpose of making RAID work :) I'm glag you got it working on your laptop!
Ok, round 2 Run "eventvwr.exe" and see if there are any related events logged. You could also try the command line interface "manage-bde" and see what error message it reports. - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message

I have it just like you said it whould be and when I click ecrypt it says unable to encrypt the drive and the red circle with an X in there appears after I click the encrypt button. I'm thinking this has something to do with the fact I am running RAID and split the RAID array array into two volumes? I dunno, just some more insight into it. I got it to work on my laptop that's running one SATA drive with Vista Ultimate 32-bit Beta 2. But thanks so far...Sooner or later we'll slay the dragon, lol.
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
A typical functioning setup is described in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-97b4d762cf31.mspx
The keys to getting this to work is, from the perspective of the Vista OS, The Vista OS *IS NOT* on the/an active partition. Determine this by running "diskmgmt.msc" and verifying that the status for the Vista partition says: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and not Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump)
The "System" indicates that it uses "BOOTMGR" and related files from the same partition during boot. The key to BitLocker being functional is that BOOTMGR, and all files that BOOTMGR accesses (under Boot directory) lives on a different partition then the Vista OS. For Beta 2, if these are on the same partition, its a pain to get things reconfigured after the fact. We're working on a solution for RC1 to fix that.
For me personally, when configuring dual-boot XP/Vista, one of the techniques I do is the following: (1) Install XP first. During installing of XP, allocate only the first half of the disk space to XP, leaving the second half of the disk as "unused space". After install, I allocate the remaining space a primary basic partition. Primary in this case means the location of the partition is stored in the MBR. (2) Install Vista second, allowing it to use the second primary partition.
There are many ways to get here, but the upshot is that there is a primary partition marked "active", and it is not the partition that Vista is being installed to.
Let me know if this helps or not.
- Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Both are formatted with NTFS and both are the same size, but in a dual-boot environment. Both partitions are primary drives for their OS's. Any hep is appreaciated and thanks thus far!!
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
How are your 2 volumes configured? Is the system partition (the one containing bootmgr) different to the OS partition (the one containing the Windows directory) ? Thanks - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all stoked to do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and store my key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and it says it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I can live without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running RAID. If not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to me, but hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
"Randy" wrote:
BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

I couldn't find any errors but here's my setup. My active partition is where XP Pro x64 resides in where it says Healthy (System, Active). The Vista 64 partition says Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump). Both are in NTFS format and I have 3 USB drives to choose from to save the key to, but only use one during the setup to cause less confusion. I had installed XP Pro x64 1st by the way as I needed drivers from there to make Vista 64 so it seemed logical for me to do it that way and I figured since it's setup this way for BitLocker I might as well use it, but it's a no go. I go through everything to activate it and then it fails in the creation process. And at this point I don't feel like breaking ym RAID array and starting over again as I finally got sound working, although 2.1 and not 7.1....it only works in the sound setup where I get 7.1, everywhere else it's 2.1 with centre channel. Or I guess 3.1, lol. Using modified Asus Realtek x64 drivers. Anyways that's where I sit now. Thanks so far!
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:

Hoping this has nothing to do with RAID, as BitLocker works with the logical volume for the very purpose of making RAID work :) I'm glag you got it working on your laptop!
Ok, round 2 Run "eventvwr.exe" and see if there are any related events logged. You could also try the command line interface "manage-bde" and see what error message it reports. - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message I have it just like you said it whould be and when I click ecrypt it says unable to encrypt the drive and the red circle with an X in there appears after I click the encrypt button. I'm thinking this has something to do with the fact I am running RAID and split the RAID array array into two volumes? I dunno, just some more insight into it. I got it to work on my laptop that's running one SATA drive with Vista Ultimate 32-bit Beta 2. But thanks so far...Sooner or later we'll slay the dragon, lol.
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
A typical functioning setup is described in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-97b4d762cf31.mspx
The keys to getting this to work is, from the perspective of the Vista OS, The Vista OS *IS NOT* on the/an active partition. Determine this by running "diskmgmt.msc" and verifying that the status for the Vista partition says: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and not Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump)
The "System" indicates that it uses "BOOTMGR" and related files from the same partition during boot. The key to BitLocker being functional is that BOOTMGR, and all files that BOOTMGR accesses (under Boot directory) lives on a different partition then the Vista OS. For Beta 2, if these are on the same partition, its a pain to get things reconfigured after the fact. We're working on a solution for RC1 to fix that.
For me personally, when configuring dual-boot XP/Vista, one of the techniques I do is the following: (1) Install XP first. During installing of XP, allocate only the first half of the disk space to XP, leaving the second half of the disk as "unused space". After install, I allocate the remaining space a primary basic partition. Primary in this case means the location of the partition is stored in the MBR. (2) Install Vista second, allowing it to use the second primary partition.
There are many ways to get here, but the upshot is that there is a primary partition marked "active", and it is not the partition that Vista is being installed to.
Let me know if this helps or not.
- Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Both are formatted with NTFS and both are the same size, but in a dual-boot environment. Both partitions are primary drives for their OS's. Any hep is appreaciated and thanks thus far!!
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
How are your 2 volumes configured? Is the system partition (the one containing bootmgr) different to the OS partition (the one containing the Windows directory) ? Thanks - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all stoked to do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and store my key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and it says it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I can live without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running RAID. If not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to me, but hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
"Randy" wrote:
BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

Ahhh i did find asome errors, it's called event ID 57 and it says: "The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may accour." And there is no help from Windows support online or no other known cases anyways online to view so there's my problem, lol
"PorscheRacer14" wrote:

I couldn't find any errors but here's my setup. My active partition is where XP Pro x64 resides in where it says Healthy (System, Active). The Vista 64 partition says Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump). Both are in NTFS format and I have 3 USB drives to choose from to save the key to, but only use one during the setup to cause less confusion. I had installed XP Pro x64 1st by the way as I needed drivers from there to make Vista 64 so it seemed logical for me to do it that way and I figured since it's setup this way for BitLocker I might as well use it, but it's a no go. I go through everything to activate it and then it fails in the creation process. And at this point I don't feel like breaking ym RAID array and starting over again as I finally got sound working, although 2.1 and not 7.1....it only works in the sound setup where I get 7.1, everywhere else it's 2.1 with centre channel. Or I guess 3.1, lol. Using modified Asus Realtek x64 drivers. Anyways that's where I sit now. Thanks so far!
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
Hoping this has nothing to do with RAID, as BitLocker works with the logical volume for the very purpose of making RAID work :) I'm glag you got it working on your laptop!
Ok, round 2 Run "eventvwr.exe" and see if there are any related events logged. You could also try the command line interface "manage-bde" and see what error message it reports. - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message I have it just like you said it whould be and when I click ecrypt it says unable to encrypt the drive and the red circle with an X in there appears after I click the encrypt button. I'm thinking this has something to do with the fact I am running RAID and split the RAID array array into two volumes? I dunno, just some more insight into it. I got it to work on my laptop that's running one SATA drive with Vista Ultimate 32-bit Beta 2. But thanks so far...Sooner or later we'll slay the dragon, lol.
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
A typical functioning setup is described in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-97b4d762cf31.mspx
The keys to getting this to work is, from the perspective of the Vista OS, The Vista OS *IS NOT* on the/an active partition. Determine this by running "diskmgmt.msc" and verifying that the status for the Vista partition says: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and not Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump)
The "System" indicates that it uses "BOOTMGR" and related files from the same partition during boot. The key to BitLocker being functional is that BOOTMGR, and all files that BOOTMGR accesses (under Boot directory) lives on a different partition then the Vista OS. For Beta 2, if these are on the same partition, its a pain to get things reconfigured after the fact. We're working on a solution for RC1 to fix that.
For me personally, when configuring dual-boot XP/Vista, one of the techniques I do is the following: (1) Install XP first. During installing of XP, allocate only the first half of the disk space to XP, leaving the second half of the disk as "unused space". After install, I allocate the remaining space a primary basic partition. Primary in this case means the location of the partition is stored in the MBR. (2) Install Vista second, allowing it to use the second primary partition.
There are many ways to get here, but the upshot is that there is a primary partition marked "active", and it is not the partition that Vista is being installed to.
Let me know if this helps or not.
- Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Both are formatted with NTFS and both are the same size, but in a dual-boot environment. Both partitions are primary drives for their OS's. Any hep is appreaciated and thanks thus far!!
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" wrote:
How are your 2 volumes configured? Is the system partition (the one containing bootmgr) different to the OS partition (the one containing the Windows directory) ? Thanks - Jamie Hunter [MS]
"PorscheRacer14" wrote in message Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all stoked to do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and store my key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and it says it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I can live without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running RAID. If not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to me, but hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
"Randy" wrote:
BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I haven't seen this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by going through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive Enryption - turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps :o)
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--: Original message follows :-- "Randy" wrote in message After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.

After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me to back up my file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second, when I do oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard where I'm then asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem is I have no idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any at all. What's going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than ignore the pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.