I'm on Windows 10. BitLocker is password-protected, no TPM, and is encrypting my data drive, but not my system drive. I did have it on my system drive, but the emergency-boot Windows Recovery never properly unlocked the C drive, so if I needed to restore a recovery point, I had to decrypt the system drive first. After this had happened a couple of times, I decided just to keep the system drive decrypted.
When the system drive was encrypted, I'd just enter the system-drive password at power-on, and it would unlock both system and data drives.
However, now, if I want to unlock the data drive, I have to open Explorer, click on the drive, and then it opens a popup window for me to enter my BitLocker password:
My standard user login is not an admin. I know I could get a prompt to unlock the drive with an admin-level script, but I don't want to have to enter my admin password and my BitLocker password each time. And besides, the system obviously has a way to prompt a normal user for the password.
So I guess some sort of macro recorder that opened the explorer window, and clicked on the encrypted drive, would do it. But isn't there a simpler, saner way to get this window to pop up, that I could put in to run after login?
It doesn't absolutely need to be that dialogue box, but I'd rather that than a command-line window.
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