Mounting a VHD

Instead of the Bit locker enter field, I get..

"This drive is locked by Bit Locker Drive Encryption. To open this
drive, you need to unlock it first."

And this sort of thing happens quite randomly.

How do I show the Bit locket password-entry field?

On 18/09/2020 01.11, Peter Jason wrote:
Instead of the Bit locker enter field, I get..

"This drive is locked by Bit Locker Drive Encryption. To open this
drive, you need to unlock it first."

And this sort of thing happens quite randomly.

How do I show the Bit locket password-entry field?

I think you can see the key only at creation time. If it is associated
with a Microsoft account, then you can read the key.




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Cheers, Carlos.

Peter Jason wrote:
Instead of the Bit locker enter field, I get..

"This drive is locked by Bit Locker Drive Encryption. To open this
drive, you need to unlock it first."

And this sort of thing happens quite randomly.

How do I show the Bit locket password-entry field?


Picture at 50% down on the page, matches your description. Failure to mount.
Notice that they managed to get an icon in the second picture, to show,
but this might be the "success case" where it did prompt, and they got
an opportunity to add a password.

https://winaero.com/blog/encrypt-vhd...in-windows-10/

This article has a command line invocation. There's no proof it produces
a prompt, but you can try it. It smells of Powershell. The path string
needs quoting because of the space character in the username.

https://winaero.com/blog/automatical...in-windows-10/

Mount-VHD -Path "C:\users\Peter Jason\Downloads\some.vhd"

I still don't see any option which is somehow "guaranteed"
to do the right thing. Looks pretty flimsy and breakable.
While there is a command... you can be our tester and test it out.

Paul

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 21:04:19 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
Instead of the Bit locker enter field, I get..

"This drive is locked by Bit Locker Drive Encryption. To open this
drive, you need to unlock it first."

And this sort of thing happens quite randomly.

How do I show the Bit locket password-entry field?


Picture at 50% down on the page, matches your description. Failure to mount.
Notice that they managed to get an icon in the second picture, to show,
but this might be the "success case" where it did prompt, and they got
an opportunity to add a password.

https://winaero.com/blog/encrypt-vhd...in-windows-10/

This article has a command line invocation. There's no proof it produces
a prompt, but you can try it. It smells of Powershell. The path string
needs quoting because of the space character in the username.

https://winaero.com/blog/automatical...in-windows-10/

Mount-VHD -Path "C:\users\Peter Jason\Downloads\some.vhd"

I still don't see any option which is somehow "guaranteed"
to do the right thing. Looks pretty flimsy and breakable.
While there is a command... you can be our tester and test it out.

Paul

Thank you,

I was reduced to opening the Bit Locker screen and Rt clicking on the
drive in question. This produced the password-field box and all went
well.

Why is it so difficult?

Peter Jason wrote:

Thank you,

I was reduced to opening the Bit Locker screen and Rt clicking on the
drive in question. This produced the password-field box and all went
well.

Why is it so difficult?

To be honest with you, I don't understand why the automation
didn't cut in and prompt you. It smacks of some half-finished code.
How many years do they need, to finish it ?

Paul