Their second response wanted me to do a warranty replacement. Samsung's initial response was to have me contact Microsoft. Also, there can come a time when the Evo is no longer needed as an eDrive, and a Secure Erase is desired to restore performance prior to use in a different environment or even being sold. ![]() If the user's Evo was unknowing in an "Ready to enable" eDrive state, then a Win8 install will change that state to Enabled automatically and silently (by default - you can change the registry during the install process to avoid this). In my case, I was specifically testing eDrive and Bitlocker and it took a user action to enable eDrive. One can still create and delete partitions with eDrive mode Enabled and otherwise use the drive as normal. One can use Bitlocker without enabling eDrive (results in software encryption). One can enable eDrive without using Bitlocker (results in no encryption). ![]() It's best to think of Edrive mode and Bitlocker as two separate things even though they are meant to work together. The drive cannot be Secure Erased via Magician as a non-OS drive, via a Magician created USB boot stick, or via my Asus ROG BIOS.īitlocker can be turned on and off and used successfully with the Evo as an eDrive, but there a few things to point out here.
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