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Bitlocker status not showing up

Cheung, James

March 23, 2017 20:28

Hi everyone,

We have Bitlocker enabled on our laptops but the status is showing up as unlocked in the Disk Drives > Partitions menu. Any ideas why this is?

Thanks,

James

Comments

3 comments

Brandon Bunnelle
March 23, 2017 20:59
I believe it shows "Unlocked" because that drive is in use and authenticated at the time of the scan. If it was "Locked" you couldn't read/write to the drive.

"Unlocked" doesn't mean "Unprotected"

You can see the status of BitLocker using the command below.

Run the following command in PowerShell with Elevated Permissions on the machine in question:
```
manage-bde -status c:manage-bde -status c:
```
on the PC in question, you should see the following output
```
Volume C: [Local Disk]
[OS Volume]

Size: XXX.XX GB
 BitLocker Version: 2.0
 Conversion Status: Used Space Only Encrypted
 Percentage Encrypted: 100.0%
 Encryption Method: XTS-AES 128
 Protection Status: Protection On
 Lock Status: Unlocked
 Identification Field: Unknown
 Key Protectors:
 TPM
 Numerical Password
```
Let me know if this helps.
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Permanently deleted user
March 23, 2017 21:00

Which version number of PDQ Inventory are you on?

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Cheung, James
March 24, 2017 14:09

I swear all of this info was not showing up yesterday but it seems to have all populated now. Anyway, thanks for your help!

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