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.
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.
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Zenbook 14
- CPU
- I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
- Motherboard
- Yep, Laptop has one.
- Memory
- 16 GB soldered
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integrated Intel Iris XE
- Sound Card
- Realtek built in
- Monitor(s) Displays
- laptop OLED screen
- Screen Resolution
- 2880x1800 touchscreen
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
- PSU
- Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
- Case
- Yep, got one
- Cooling
- Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
- Keyboard
- Built in UK keybd
- Mouse
- Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
- Internet Speed
- 900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)
Macrium Reflect Home V8
Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)
