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  1. Posts : 184
    Windows 7 Build 7229 x64
       #11

    I never had any issues with that popping up.

    I would do what YupYup suggested and check the BitLocker settings. Either go to the Control Panel or type BitLocker in the start menu and click on "BitLocker Drive Encryption" and if it says that it's turned on for either drive turn it off.
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  2. Posts : 34
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       #12

    I cannot turn on/off bit locker, because there is no Trusted Platform Module Security Device on this computer.

    The flash drive G is now write protected. It is an Attache 2G, has no switch. All efforts to reformat (via disk management etc) have failed.

    There are now two questions:

    • How can I reformat the flash drive?

    * How can I use this flash drive as a Ready Boost in Windows 7
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  3. Posts : 4,573
       #13

    You need this BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool. There are three methods of enabling the BitLocker implementation of Trusted Platform Module Security Device, only two of which are embedded in the motherboard.

    When you see the "space reserved for system files" (sic), this is part of that reservation. For reasons that I have no clue regarding, it is possible to install Windows 7 without this volume reservation.

    Nonetheless, use the tool.

    From MS:
    The BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool automates the following processes to configure the hard disk drive correctly:
    1. It creates a second volume, if one is not already present.
    2. It moves the boot files to the correct volume, and ensures that the operating system is correctly configured to find them at startup.
    3. It configures the correct volume as the active partition on the drive for startup.

    When the tool finishes, you must restart the computer. The computer’s hard disk drive will then be configured correctly for BitLocker.
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  4. Posts : 4,573
       #14

    And, by all means, use ReadyBoost, if only to determine it's level of benefit on your platform. Without regard to any opinions to the contrary, ReadyBoost is based on, and developed within, valid computer science dynamics.

    It is not what a man says, but how he says it that reveals what he means. The medium is the message.
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  5. Posts : 34
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       #15

    Installation of the BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool failed. It made me download first WGAPluginInstall and then Windows6.0-KB933246-x86, but stopped installation, saying not applicable to your computer.
    My computer is an Emachine T5234 with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor, 4000+, 2.10 GHz, 1GB RAM, 32 bit OS, and Windows 7 Ultimate
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  6. Posts : 4,573
       #16

    gfheiche said:
    Installation of the BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool failed.
    The WGA install was expected. From Ramblings of a Support Engineer:

    Just heard about this last night so I wanted to put this out there.
    We're aware of an issue with the Bitlocker Drive Prep tool (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=320b9aa9-47e8-44f9-b8d0-4d7d6a75add0&displaylang=en) on Windows Vista/2008 with SP2 installations. You'll get an error regarding the "Update does not apply to your system" similar to the issue I blogged about CheckSUR. We will have a new binary out shortly that will work with SP2, no timeframe as of yet.

    As a workaround, you can try to do the following to manually install the update:

    expand -f:* "C:\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86.msu" %TEMP%

    start /w pkgmgr.exe /ip /m:%TEMP%\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86.cab

    C:\Program Files\BitLocker\BdeHdCfg.exe will be the tool that you want to run post installation of the package.

    The GUI version of the tool will still fail to work properly. Use of this tool is discussed more in the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933246/en-us
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  7. Posts : 34
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       #17

    How do I do the manually install the update:

    expand -f:* "C:\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86.msu" %TEMP%

    start /w pkgmgr.exe /ip /m:%TEMP%\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86.cab
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  8. Posts : 4,573
       #18

    Place the update at C:\
    Open command prompt as admin (right click)

    type
    expand -f:* "C:\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86.msu" %TEMP%
    press enter

    type
    start /w pkgmgr.exe /ip /m:%TEMP%\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86.cab
    press enter

    once complete, in Explorer, go to C:\Program Files\BitLocker\
    double click BdeHdCfg.exe

    This should cause the tool to operate.
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  9. Posts : 4,573
       #19

    Actually, STOP!

    I am not using good judgement. You run the risk of corrupting your install. Do you have data backed up? Do you an install DVD or USB?

    ReadyBoost is not helpful enough to risk an unusable PC.
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  10. Posts : 34
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       #20

    Sorry, I got your second message too late. Thanks.
    Here is what happened:
    It did not work.
    I created C:\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86


    Ran as administrator C:\> start /w pkgmgr.exe /ip /m:%TEMP%\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86.cab. It did expand 4 files total.


    Ran C:\> start /w pkgmgr.exe /ip /m:%TEMP%\Windows6.0-KB933246-x86.cab
    Got the message from Windows Package Manager:” Operation failed with 0x8007047F. The specified program is not a Windows or MS-DOS program.”
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