External HDD automatically locked by BitLocker

Hello,
I use Windows 8 on my laptop, and my external HDD got encrypted with BitLocker out of the blue.
I have never used BitLocker, I do not even have it on my laptop (Control Panel does not show any icon for BitLocker & forums say it is only available with Windows 8 Pro).
Therefore, I have no idea why Windows has locked my HDD, and I have no means of recovering this as I do not have any recovery key or password (since I have never used BitLocker in the
first place).
Please help.
Thanks,
Jignasha

Hi,
Was your issue resolved?
If no, please reply and tell us the current situation in order to provide further help.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

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From my point of few its not HDD problem because the HDD works in connection with USB 2.0 port.
Im wondering if you already tried to update the USB 3.0 driver.
Did you try this HDD in connection with another computers / USB 3.0 ports?
I think its worth a check.
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Security : Protecting/Locking an External HDD

Hi, I realise this is probably the wrong category for this question but couldnt find an appropriate one.
Does anyone out there have an idea/suggestion of how I could protect contect on an external HDD?
Anyone can just plug it into their mac/pc and read it.
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Hi, Right Click on the HD icon ->Get Info -> then at the bottom of the open window you can select who has permission to read/write also ENSURE you Uncheck the Ignore Ownership box..
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BitLocker Automatic lock is not working

I turned on BitLocker to one of my partitions. I wanted an Auto Lock option, for which I tweaked the registry. The following is the code, which I actually found in the
EightForums.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; Created by: Shawn Brink
; http://www.eightforums.com
; Tutorial: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/21325-lock-drive-add-context-menu-bitlocker-drives.html
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\lock-bde]
"AppliesTo"="System.Volume.BitLockerProtection:=1 OR System.Volume.BitLockerProtection:=3 OR System.Volume.BitLockerProtection:=5 NOT C:"
@="Lock Drive..."
"HasLUAShield"=""
"MultiSelectModel"="Single"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\lock-bde\command]
@=hex(2):77,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,69,00,70,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,\
00,6c,00,6f,00,63,00,6b,00,2d,00,62,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,76,00,62,00,73,00,\
20,00,25,00,31,00,00,00
I added the above code to the registry. You can see the screen shot below.
And, I also pasted a .vbs file with the following code in the System32 folder.
' Created by: Shawn Brink
' http://www.eightforums.com
' Tutorial: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/21325-lock-drive-add-context-menu-bitlocker-drives.html
Drive = ""
Last = Wscript.Arguments.Count - 1
For n = 0 To Last
Drive = Drive & " " & Wscript.Arguments.Item(n)
Next
Drive = Replace(Drive,":\",":")
CreateObject("Shell.Application").ShellExecute "manage-bde.exe", "-lock -forcedismount " & Drive, "", "runas", 0
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The option worked properly for a few days and now, when I click on "LockDrive", it is not working.
How to repair this tweak and make the "LockDrive" option in the right-click menu work properly?
I am running Windows 8.1 Pro x64.

Hi,
I suppose that any security update break this down.
Please check if there is any update installed before this issue. Try a system restore to see if this feature works well.
To narrow down the cause of this issue, please run command to lock the Bitlocker drive manually to see what's going on:
Run cmd.exe as administrator by right click and run as....
Type following command line:
manage-bde -lock x:
x = drive letter you want to re-lock.
If this command can work fine, there should be something wrong with the script you get from other forum.
You can try to use Process monitor to capture the events when you use the right-click menu item, and check if there is any access denied or file not found error.
Process Monitor v3.05
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
How to use, please refer to this article:
Using Process Monitor to capture system events
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/119038.aspx
Kate Li
TechNet Community Support

External HDD locked, can't repair permissions or create folder at root

After having to do an archive and install as mac mini stuck in start-up, start-up not finished, start start-up again loop I am experiencing bizarre problem. Spend 3 days on this and now just 2 hours with Apple Support. Since the archive and install the 3 partitions of my external HDD all have a padlock on them. Tried many things including checking permissions from install disk or from usual start-up disk and even logged in as root user. At the root level it is not possible to create a new folder or trash items or to move anything to this level. At lower directory levels you can. Clicking on Get info for each partition shows the same thing. It says just above the name box that I can read only, yet by my name says I can read and write. However, selecting anything other than read and write does not stick, it ignores the request. At the sub directory level it says my privileges are custom. Logged in as a root user, I tried to move something to the root level of the HDD. It asked me to authenticate but even after doing that said I had insufficient privileges!
Please someone help. Apple support has had to escalate now. Their comment was "I've never heard of such a sever issue with permissions."
In the mean time I have limited control over my external HDD.
thanks
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Hopefully you can help me out here as well V.K.
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sudo chflags nouchg /My Book II
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Installed OS X Snow Leopard on external HDD, now won't allow me to delete files from Mac internal drive

Hi,
I am stuck! My 1 TB iMac 27" decided to stop booting up and would only stay at the grey screen with the apple, gear turning and progress bar. When it got to a certain point on the progress bar it would shut down. Thanks to so many helpful people and their experiences I was able to try many different things including (Command + S, typing /sbin/mount -uw / enter , chmod 775 / enter, logout enter, then rebooting holding down Command + V) and (Reinstalling OS X and using Disk Utility to repair - came up with Disk can't be fixed).
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My problem is that I cannot delete files from Macintosh HD, and I've tried to unlock files/folders but they don't seem to be locked. But when I drag them to the trash can it says "The item ... can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted." Again, many helpful answers online, but nothing is working. I have 2 Finder windows open, one with external HDD (new startup disk), and old HDD (Macintosh HD) but all items in Macintosh HD can't be altered or deleted (right click doesn't highlight to change the name). So if I can't delete my files, I can't reinstall OS X and repair disk and select it as my startup disk. I'd be so thrilled if someone can help me. I have tried unlocking folders, and I downloaded 'Trashit'. Neither worked, so I figure because it has the little pencil crossed out on the menu bar that it is protected somehow...I just don't know how/what to do. Thanks

Ok, so I'll try set it out a bit clearer than my first post,
This is what I've done, and the results:
1. My son unplugged working iMac Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2, 1TB with only 11GB available space
2. Turned it on and got the white screen, apple, turning gear and load-up bar
3. Turned Mac off and waited 1/2 a minute.
4. Turned Mac back on...(same as 3.), tried again many times
5. Began searching internet for answers (see original post)
6. Found answers and did the following:
               1.     Put OS X installation disk into drive
               2.     Attached External Hard Drive
               3.     Installed OS X onto External Hard Drive (With a different name & password to original HDD)
               4.     Found Macintosh HD still worked so tried to delete files only to get message saying                                           files couldn't be deleted (see original post)
I've tried changing the permissions in 'Get Info' and this is what happens:
1.Right click Macintosh HD - says "You can only read"
                                                  Name: System - Read & Write
                                                             Admin -   Read & Write
                                                             Everyone - Read only
2.Click on padlock to unlock - doesn't turn black to be able to change anything
3.Check the box "Ignore ownership on this volume" (someone else advised to do this)
4.Name changes to 'mydrive (Me)'
5.Lock padlock and Name still says mydrive (Me) but still 'You can only read'
I don't know what is wrong or what to do, but perhaps you are right LowLuster, that because I named them different names it is protected in some way.
My thought now is to copy all my files to the external HDD and then erase and install again on my internal HD, but I really need my calendar, emails etc from my old HD and not sure they can be found on the old HD to copy over.
Still stuck!

External HDD won't mount at boot. [Solved]

Edit:
I've noticed that this is an issue regarding my NTFS partition being on an external drive. Please check post #8 by me to get further details.
Hello guys, I'm having some problems getting my external NTFS HDD to mount automatically at boot. I have installed HAL and NTFS-3G, but I'm still getting problems. Mounting once the computer has finished booting is no problem using the simple mount command (sudo mount /media/pebble). I see no reason why this should be having problems mounting at boot with my fstab entry, but no errors occur when mounting manually.
Fstab entry:
/dev/sdc1 /media/pebble ntfs-3g fmask=022 1 0
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# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
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# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
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TIMEZONE="America/Vancouver"
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CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
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Last edited by ryeguy146 (2009-11-05 10:04:32)

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I suppose that I should define /dev/sdc. It is a Western Digital External HDD running off of a USB 2.0 cable. I don't know why this makes a difference, but it apparently does. Both entries in the fstab are identical for their respective devices and mount points.
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The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "Windows1-Snapshot6.vmem" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)
After I press OK to remove the dialog, the copy does not continue, and I cannot cancel the copy. I have to force-quit the Finder to make the copy dialog go away before I can attempt the copy again. I've tried rebooting between attempts, still no luck. I have tried a total of 4 times now, exact same result at the exact same place, 42 GB / 57 GB.
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From a correspondence with Tim, a support representative at Apple:
Hi Tim,
Thank you for getting back to me, I got your message. Although it is true that at the time I ran the Capture Data program there were some VMWare-related processes running (PID's 105, 106, 107 and 108), this was not the case when the issue occurred earlier. After initially experiencing the problem, this possibility had occurred to me so I took the time to terminate all VMWare processes using the activity monitor before again attempting to copy the files, including the processes mentioned by your engineering department. I documented this in my posting to apple's forum as follows: (quote is from my post of Feb 19, 2008, 1:28pm, to the thread "Unable to copy very large file to eSATA external HDD", relevant section in >bold print<)
Thanks for the suggestions. I have since tried this operation with 3 different drives through two different interface types. Two of the drives are identical - 3.5" 7200 RPM 1TB Western Digital WD10EACS (WD Caviar SE16) in external hard drive enclosures, and the other is a smaller USB2 100GB Western Digital WD1200U0170-001 external drive. I tried the two 1TB drives through eSATA - ExpressPort and also over USB2. I have tried the 100GB drive only over USB2 since that is the only interface on the drive. In all cases the result is the same. All 3 drives are formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
I know the files work on my laptop's hard drive. They are a VMWare virtual machine that works just fine when I use it every day. >Before attempting the copy, I shut down VMWare and terminated all VMWare processes using the Activity Monitor for good measure.< I have tried the copy operation both through the finder and through the Unix command prompt using the drive's mount point of /Volumes/jfinney-ext-3.
Any more ideas?
Furthermore, to prove that there were no file locks present on the affected files, I moved them to a different location on my laptop's HDD and renamed them, which would not have been possible if there had been interference from vmware-related processes. So, that's not it.
Your suggested workaround, to compress the files before copying them to the external drive, may serve as a temporary workaround but it is not a solution. This VM will grow over time to the point where even the compressed version is larger than the 42GB maximum, and compressing and uncompressing the files will take me a lot of time for files of this size. Could you please continue to pursue this issue and identify the underlying cause?
Thank you,
- Jeremy

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Using TC as external HDD

Hi all!
I just installed a new 1TB Time Capsule (TC) and got it working fine to do the backups from my iMac through Time Machine.
However, I failed to also make it the destination for a so-called Vault under Aperture 2 (a dedicated Aperture backup system). Somehow, the TC is not found as an external HDD. This also raises the more general question: if TC has lots of spare space, like mine now, how can I use part of that as a simple external HDD?
My setup is that the TC is a client of the wireless network in my home and sits in a different room than the iMac (which works fine for operating Time Machine).
Very grateful for any tips from you experts out there!
Rutger

I would like to add that Apple does not recommend that you copy anything extra onto a Time Machine backup volume. This is because Time Machine will gradually use up space on the volume until it's full, and then automatically remove older backup data to make room for new stuff. So the volume will eventually run out of space for you to copy your stuff there. You may also confuse Time Machine.
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External HDD not found

My external won't show up all of a sudden. It was working fine, updated to 10.6.8 latest verion to prepare for Lion. Then when I want to copy some files from external HDD like I always do, it isn't there anymore. Won't show up in Finder nor Disk utility.
The external HDD starts up like normally, sound is ok. But just doesn't show up. I connected the HDD to windows 7, it installed the driver automatically but doesn't show the drive.
What to do? Who can help me?

I suspect the drive or the electronics in the external enclosure is bad.
More then likely it isn't the drive itself. More then likely it is the external enclosure electronic
What make and model is the external drive?

Mounting partition and external hdds in xmonad

Hi all,
Recently i ditched DE in favor of tiling windows( XMonad in particular) and now I want to know which is the best file manager for it.
I have thunar installed but it doesn't automatically mount my external hard disks and my partitions.
I am able to do so only if I run
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some one in irc suggested that doing that is not a good way.
So I want to know filemanager that mounts external hdd and partitions automatically.
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Last edited by pyarch (2014-08-27 01:42:36)

Stebalien wrote:
pyarch wrote:
Stebalien wrote:You don't need a filemanager for that. Personally, I use udiskie however, if you want to use thunar as your filemanager, you can start thunar-volman at login to automount drives.
I have udiskie installed but it doesn't do anything am i missing something ?
Did you start it? If you did, you should see an icon in your tray/notification icon area (if you have one) and it should automount external disks when you plug them in.
start as in ?
systemctl start udisks2

External HDD - Permissions

Hello everyone,
I share an external hdd and the files on it with a lot of people. What ails us: the whole permission mumbo-jumbo.
Is there a way to automatically strip all permissions (or like chmod 777) and the ownership from a the file, when it's copied to the ehdd?
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As BaconPie said, change the fstab of every computer that connects to the drive.
create a line for your usb drive or add to the existing line _one_ of the following in the options column:
dmask=0222,fmask=0333
umask=0222
uid=1000,gid=1000 (check with the 'id' command that this matches your user and group id)
You might also want to add the option 'user' to allow you to mount and unmount that drive without being root.
Lastly, you are able to write to the drive right? Else see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

Automount of SD card & USB external HDD with strange KDE pop up msg

Today I reviewed lots of threads posted over the last year and some bug reports too about this issue, but it's happening for me too. Both SD card and USB external HDD have autodetectable filesystems on them because I can mount them by hand with "mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt" and "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt". But it would be nice if I didn't have to do that.
Although I didn't notice which explicit install that I did pulled them in as dependencies, I do have udisk2 and polkit installed. Also installed udiskie as a wrapper. I've been mounting these volumes by hand before now because I feel like I'm still learning the ropes of The Arch Way and guessed (apparently incorrectly) that mounting volumes by hand was just part of "The Arch Way". But based on some threads here and some bug reports, I guess this used to work in Arch but has been causing some problems for some people lately when they upgrade. I just installed Arch for the first time (using the 2015.02.01 iso image), so I don't have any background to go on.
So what is The Arch Way for automounting external drives? I've skimmed the wiki article for this and because "Development of udisks has ceased in favor of udisks2." it seems that udisks2 is preferred. But it got installed and the daemon is running for me. The user is in the wheel group. dbus is running (though like one person who filed a bug, I too have several instances of dbus in my ps -aux output and I'm not sure if that is as it should be or not). I've done no special configuration ("not wittingly" anyway; I promise, my name is not James Clapper) that I think would have affected this.
So for a newb with no special preference, how should automounting be configured in a new Arch system? In other words, what should be my first steps in trying to solve this problem for myself? I know there are lots of different ways to skin this cat, but I'd prefer the simplest and most elegant solution that does not depend on KDE or GNOME or other unnecessary tools. I've just (with this Arch system I just installed) begun using i3wm and I think I'll be sticking with it. That said, however, it's clear that I inadvertently/unwittingly managed to get some elements of KDE into memory as the following http://gamonics.org/img/2015-02-26-1731 … _scrot.png shows. This popped up both times, when I plugged in my SD card and when I plugged in my USB drive. Any thoughts on what's going on here? I did install okular explicitly because I think it's one of the best PDF viewers, but I don't understand why KDE is reporting anything to me when I'm running i3 and insert an SD card or a USB disk.
And in the terminal, I get this output (apparently from udiskie):
[root@archippocrates archie]# Failed to show notification: The connection is closed
not adding /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/mmcblk0: unhandled device
mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/mmcblk0p1 on /media/3532-3338
Failed to show notification: The connection is closed
Although the volume does get mounted automatically.
Thanks for any thoughts.
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Last edited by Gamonics (2015-02-27 00:25:01)

I personally can't answer the question of "simplest and most elegant" way of mounting devices. It all depends on what you want. If you expect more exotic functionality, say correct unmounting of devices if they were disconnected during a sleep cycle, there's probably no way around udisks2. For that you get a complex piece of software prone to... unexpected behaviour. Mind you some of it is related to front-ends like GVFS.
As to your KDE issues, last I checked mount handling was disabled by default there, but you can control it manually (see man kcmshell4). Though I haven't followed up on KDE 5 developments. If going with udisks2, I'd recommend using devmon from the udevil package as a front-end (more details on the wiki udisks page).
PS: multiple dbus instances are expected, check the user names and specified arguments in the ps output.
edit: grammar. :X
Last edited by Alad (2015-02-27 17:03:31)

EXTERNAL HDD - the point of decision???

Hello everyone,
After much looking and research I have narrowed down a few external HDD With I believe to be compatible with my imac etc.... however I would really appreciate ANY help in choosing which is the best to get......
Some options I have found are: All 500GB
1: Mercury Elite-AL Firewire 400+USB2 Combo Drive Solution $199.99- OWC www.eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MAU4F7500G16/
2: Maxtor OneTouch III FireWire+USB2 $209.99 - Maxtor online store www.maxstore.com/product.asp?sku=3070584
3: Maxtor T01W500 FireWire 400+800, +USB2 $229.99 - Frys.com www.shop3.outpost.com/product/4951741#detailed
4: Maxtor OneTouch III FireWire 400+USB2 COMBO $299AU - Ezyshop.net.au www.ezyshop.net.au/?mod=product&catid=135,139&productid=644
5: Seagate FreeAgent Pro Data Mover esata, FireWire400+USB2 $179.99 - Frys.com www.shop3.outpost.com/product/5217457#detailed
Well there you go, terribly sorry there are so many, will be glad when my technical knowledge is better, I have already learnt heaps from reading other posts from around this site, thanks so much to everyone who contribute, I really think it's awesome.
Tim
17-inch iMac (isight) 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2gb RAM, 160gb HD

OK, you install SD on your HD, it's controlled by your computer and will find your external drive when you plug it in. The instructions that come with SD are very easy, you simply mount the fw drive and instruct SD to clone to it. You'll be able to figure it out quickly, and after the first operation, things will be automatic.
You can partition your external drive, using Disk Utility, just make sure you have a partition that is the same size as your hard drive. The second partition can be used for whatever you like. You should format the drive as OS Extended (journaled).
Let me know when it's all set up and running smoothly, as I am sure it will,
Miriam

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