Bitlocker stuck at 0%, says drive "needs conversion"

[Guest]

Hello everybody,

I just reinstalled Vista Ultimate x64, and got everything set up for
BitLocker encryption. I saved the key, restarted, then BitLocker says that
drive C: is being encrypted; however, it never goes past 0%.

I have also tried to skip the "Run Bitlocker system check" option, but I get
an error saying that not enough space is available. I find that extremely
hard to believe, since I have 14.4 out of 30 GB free on my system drive.

When BitLocker says the drive is being encrypted, if I check the BitLocker
screen from Control Panel / Security / BitLocker, next to my system drive it
says "needs conversion". What does that mean?

I had BitLocker working before reinstalling Vista, and I do not have a clue
as to why it is not working now. Does anyone have any idea or solution?

My hard drive setup is as follows (should it be relevant) :

- nForce 4 Controller

- 2 X Western Digital Caviar 160 GB HDD's in RAID 0

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sincerely,

Alex G.

 

[Guest]

Hardware or software RAID?

 

[Dennis Pack]

Mr_Nuke:
I have the same encryption concern with raid 1 (mirror) using Nvidia
NF4 onboard raid. Encryption stays at 0% but the Vista partition is hidden
from XP. To verify that the cause was just the raid array I installed Vista
on a non-raid hard drive on the same computer and BitLocker functions
normally. The only other possibility is that there are 4 hard drives, 2 PATA
and 2 SATA, the raid array has the SATA hard drives with only Vista
installed and the earlier operating systems are installed on PATA hard
drives. I don't currently have an extra SATA hard drive to test the
PATA/SATA differences. Have a great day.

 

[Guest]

Dennis,


I had the drive encrypted in Vista before with the same hard-drive
configuration; the problem only appeared after reinstallling Vista (I had
some issues with a "problematic" program). I do not see why it worked then
and it does not now. My assumption is that it is either a BitLocker bug, or
some setting I need to make. Unfortunately for me, having an OEM Vista, I
cannot get support from Microsoft, nor can I afford it (money being the
reason for purchasing the OEM in the first place).

Jesper,

I have the drives set up in hardware RAID. I do not have any PATA drive on
my computer or in the array. Both hard drives are functionally identical.

Sincerely,
Alex G.

 

[Mr_Nuke]

Almost one month later, and still no solution.
Any ideas?