Bitlocker Device Encryption and Windows 11 Home

I have a spare travel laptop with Windows 11 Home with 2 hard drives (both conventional SATA SSD drives).

The laptop has TPM 2 and modern standby so I can use Bitlocker Device Encryption but not full Bitlocker without upgrading to Pro.

The Encryption works fine for the primary drive with OS and a secondary data partition.

However, the secondary drive just gets totally ignored and I cannot see any setting to encrypt second drive.

I always thought Bitlocker Device Encryption encrypyted all drives but seemingly not.

Has anybody here encrypted multiple drives on Home?

I have Pro on my main laptop as that is Pro, and I can use full Bitlocker. In the end, I will probably buy a Pro licence but was trying to avoid that.

Must be a Pro thing, I have Pro and it shows for all three drives.

You *should* still be able to upgrade if you have an unused Win 10 Pro key from your previous devices (non OEM). Some have even said that using even older Win 8 and Win 7 keys still works also.

Use my article in order to use Bitlocker on the home edition on all drives. It works on Win11, too: