Windows 7 Pro + Enterprise dual boot and BitLocker

Hi,
For testing purpose, I'm working on a machine I prepared for dual booting 2 differents "flavors" of Windows 7. 
On single HD, I have 3 partitions:
1- BDE
2- Windows 7 Enterprise, connected in AD
3- Windows 7 Pro, workgroup.
Everything is working fine, until I try to encrypt my whole drive with BitLocker. Encryption goes fine for both Windows partitions and, on restart, selecting the first partition to boot into Windows 7 enterprise in AD will work fine too.
The problem comes out when trying to boot the Windows 7 Pro partition: BitLocker will ask the recovery key on each boot. 
Is there any solution to this? Thanks a lot.

Hi,
The Bitlocker Drive Encryption is only supported in Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

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