Bitlocker detects second fixed drive as Removable drive

[Biga_b]

I have Workstation v14. Installed windows 10 v1709, added TPM, encrypt the C:\ disk, and enabled bitlocker. Works perfect.

Now i added a second drive, and it's detected in Bitlocker as Removable drive instead of a fixed drive.

I didn't found a solution on the net. I tried adding the following registry setting:

REG_MULTI_SZ key named TreatAsInternalPort under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\Parameters\Device] and name it 0 1 2 3 4

That didn't solved the problem.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

[bluefirestorm · Accepted solution]

Try adding the following lines to the vmx configuration file of the VM.

ahci.port.hotplug.enabled = "FALSE"

devices.hotPlug = "FALSE"

The first line is for SATA drives to not appear as removeable.

The second line make a bunch of other devices that cannot be "Ejected" (including Ethernet, SCSI disks).

[Biga_b]

That's it.. Second drive is a fixed drive now..

Thanks Bluefirestorm.