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Bitlocker Automatically Activated on External Drive
Left my Seagate external drive plugged into the docking station at work. Next day Bitlocker was activated. Been through the ringer with IT who shows our Bitlocker for External Drives was disabled. No...
I have the exact same issue and from what I've gathered online, we're not the only ones and this appears to be caused by BitLocker itself. It activated automatically on drivers without user consent and without a recovery key or a password to get the affected driver back. Until the issue is fixed, chances are none of us are getting our files back. This also happened on Western Digital disks and local harddrives on some people's computers and most of them were brand new.
I hope there's a fix for this soon. I want my files back.