Solved Issue trying to enable BitLocker on Windows 8.1 Pro

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I recently upgraded my windows 8.1 to windows 8.1 pro as I wanted to enable bitlocker encryption on the laptop.

The issue is that I can't seem to enable or find bitlocker in any of the area's outlined. When I try to right click on the C: drive I don't have an option for bitlocker. When I go into control panel, there's no bitlocker icon. When I do a search on the machine for bitlocker I do get a "manage bitlocker" icon, but it's doesn't do anything when I click on it.

I have followed the tutorial on this site and downloaded/installed the reg files to enable it on a non tpm device. Can see that they did update the policy on the machine, but still no joy.

When I go into PC info on the machine in question I don't see anything about bitlocker. It's like it's not there. Do you have to add a windows feature to enable it?

Thanks

Darren

Have you look at this tutorial

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/21271-bitlocker-turn-off-os-drive-windows-8-a.html

Yes, I followed that tutorial as outlined and a few other different solutions as outlined on the web. None helped. I've decided to re-install windows completely and start from fresh.

Just an update, a complete reinstall of the OS and then upgrade to windows 8.1 pro pack fixed the issue. I can now see the option for turn on bitlocker.

Glad you got it sorted out.