I have a SAM SUNG 850 Pro with hardware encryption and I want hardware encryption on my C: drive. Plug the OS drive into A DIFFERENT MACHINE (or the same machine if you’re planning to wipe it, but you can’t boot off of the drive yet)2. That worked great, and when I run the command “manage-bde.exe -status f:” it confirms that the ssd is indeed hardware encrypted in this secondary drive position.How come I can’t get it working when the SSD is the primary drive? Any ideas would be appreciated! To Mark: According to the Samsung Tooltip, to get hardware encryption of an OS drive, you have to install a NEW Operating System on it.Basically, the steps required would be:1. However, every time I get to the step of enabling encryption I get the “Encrypt part of drive or whole drive” question indicating software-based encryption.As a test, I installed Windows 8.1 to an old SATA drive instead and then activated bitlocker on the Samsung SSD as a secondary drive. I’ve followed the steps exactly for my Evo840 with Samsung Magician, and Gigabyte’s support staff assures me that the motherboard does support edrive. I have a TPM module installed, CSM disabled and UEFI bios use confirmed.
