I then bitlocked it, unlocked it, and wrote another file to it to be sure. I reformatted it again, made sure all the permissions would allow any office user to write files (and I did test this and made a few files on the drive as my admin user and my regular user to make sure). No files could be saved there, no files could be made there.Īfter some initial troubleshooting, I decided maybe I'd messed something up. The individual it was issued to ran into an issue on first use: Couldn't write to it. This being new, policy is also that it be fully reformatted (which I did as NTFS) and then Bitlocked in Compatible mode (with password).
We had a new external HDD enter circulation, which per policy has to be bitlocked.
Windows 10, AD-managed environment, WD My Passport external.
