February 7, 2007 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Windows Vista Ultimate's new drive encryption feature BitLocker supposedly works with a regular USB drive. But ...

I am trying to access a bitlocker-ed drive. There is a TPM chip on my laptop. I have attached to drive to a caddy and attached via USB.

To fix the “Cannot install Windows, BitLocker Drive Encryption is enabled on selected partition” error, suspend BitLocker via Settings or Control Panel, or use your recovery key to unlock the drive.