Bitlocker drives 'Parameter is incorrect'

[liberty610]

Hello all,

I am running the latest Windows 10 64bit, Here is my build on PC Parts Picker:
https://pcpartpicker.com/b/BqHhP6

I am having an odd random issue. I have 7 internal hard drives on my machine. 2 SSD's (one M.2 and the other Sata), and 5 standard HDDs. I run a small project studio where I have people in and out all the time, so on 3 of my drives I have them Bitlocked so the can not be accessed by randoms.

Sometimes, not all the time, I will go to unlock 1 of the 3 drives, or sometimes I'll try and unlcok all of them, and I will put in my password to unlock it, go to open the drive and get a (drive letter) not accessible/ The parameter is incorrect." Sometimes I can unlock all the drives with no issues, sometimes 2 of the drives will unlock but no the third (in no order). Sometimes all of them unlock. It seems to happen at random. Once I do a system reboot, I can usually unlock the drives without issues.

Is there something that I can look into to what could be causing this? Like I said, its at random and doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes all the drives have issues when I try and unlock them, sometimes only one or two do it.

Any advice or possible tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[hang-the-9]

Run a drive check utility on the drives to make sure they are in good health. You have backups of those drives right? if not, make some.

Seatools is good for the scan.

 

[liberty610]

Run a drive check utility on the drives to make sure they are in good health. You have backups of those drives right? if not, make some.

Seatools is good for the scan.

I have everything backed up in a 16TB NAS system, but I can't see where ALL my hard drives are problematic. 2 of them are brand new. I have Hard Disk Sentinel running in the background at all times, and it shows me no issues on that end. I have also used Western Digital lifeguard utility with no issues there.

 

[hang-the-9]

Run a drive check utility on the drives to make sure they are in good health. You have backups of those drives right? if not, make some.

Seatools is good for the scan.

I have everything backed up in a 16TB NAS system, but I can't see where ALL my hard drives are problematic. 2 of them are brand new. I have Hard Disk Sentinel running in the background at all times, and it shows me no issues on that end. I have also used Western Digital lifeguard utility with no issues there.

Did you check with MS support sites about the error with bitlocker? Outside of a failing hard drive I have not seen the parameter is incorrect error when accessing drives.

Is anything overclocked? If there are CPU or RAM issues with them not working properly I can see odd things happening.

 

[liberty610]

No, Nothing is overclocked. And it is only the bitlocker drives I have issues with, and like I stated, it's not all the time.

 

[Evvvvv]

No, Nothing is overclocked. And it is only the bitlocker drives I have issues with, and like I stated, it's not all the time.

As he said, you should contact Microsoft forums too for that.