BitLocker Drive preparation tool - fail

Hello

So, I try to activate bitlocker on my laptop drive encryption, which is already running Vista Ultimate x 86.  I was not initially intended, and I knew that if I wanted to later, I could allagedly use the Bitlocker Drive preparation tool, so I built it with a single partition.

Now, I want to activate bitlocker, so I downloaded the drive preparation tool, but I when I run it, I get the following error:

"The bitlocker Drive Preparation Tool cannot find a system of target drive.  You may need to manually prepare your drive for BitLocker. »

So I search and find this article kb http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933246

I tried to manually specify the system drive by running the command line: ' BdeHdCfg.exe - target: shrink - newdriveletter x: - size 1500-quiet - restart ", but she just runs for a few seconds and then returns to the command prompt, so I check the event log and find an entry under the logs event observer, applications and services, Microsoft, Bitlocker DrivePreparationTool, Admin and found events (event error 1 id) similar to what I saw in the GUI of not find a system drive.  Under the operational event folder, I found event ID 4104, "a volume did not meet the requirements for a target volume. Volume: C: reason: impossible to reduce the target volume of the requested size. "

So in the above article, my error message with certain proposed resolutions: "temporarily disable the hibernation option and disk paging. Then, use the Windows preinstallation environment to remove the file Hiberfil.sys and Pagefile.sys file. Restart the computer in Windows Vista. Then run the BitLocker Drive preparation tool. "OR"reinstall Windows Vista. »

So of course, I tried the first suggestion, disabling hibernation using "powercfg-h" off and delete the hiberfil.sys file, disabled a swap under System properties file and deleted the "pagefile.sys" and restarted.

Always the same error :(

Is the second action plan 'Reinstall Windows Vista' serious?  I want to activate the drive encryption, should not be this hard.  I don't think that requiring people to reinstall just because an application cannot function in a reasonable way to be an excuse...

Hi benneh,.

In the article you posted there are two different scenarios listed that could cause the error message:

"The bitlocker Drive Preparation Tool cannot find a system of target drive.  You may need to manually prepare your drive for BitLocker. »

In your post you referenced scenario 2 and the steps you took to solve it, but you reference scenario1 which is as follows:

Scenario 1: You do not have enough free disk space to "at least 10 percent of the active partition must remain free after the partition size is reduced by 1.5 gigabytes (GB). To resolve this error, move the files to another partition or delete files. »

Just to be sure that it is not the reason for your question; After subtracting the reduction in size of 1.5 GB for your total hard drive space always need it the 10 percent of free space on the active partition?  Please let us know.  Thank you.
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