I would like to protect my Windows 11 Pro desktop and laptop with Bitlocker and password/pin. Here's my struggle after I encryped the drive and want to protect the drives in the case the entire pc is stolen.
Currently I am running Windows 11 (latest 22H2 build) with BitLocker enabled with initial PIN login. I recently been facing some Sleep / Wake and Crash issue (different issue) with my desktop, so I decided to update my BIOS to see if it will fix it. After I updated BIOS and rebooted, it took me to the PIN login to unlock BitLocker.
0 You may use full bitlocker on Windows10 or 11 home using the following trick: Boot to the Windows recovery environment ("WinRE") or, alternatively, to windows setup. Open a command line (WinRE: go to troubleshooting ->advanced ->command line, Win Setup: Press Shift F10=. There: use Bitlocker pre-provisioning: manage-bde -on c: -used Then reboot.
Finally I installed Windows 10 Pro on a separate machine, and connected the encrypted drive, Windows recognized it as a Bitlocker drive, and I was able to unlock it with the recovery key, and the valuable data was saved! The end. If you're wondering why I didn't just boot the encrypted drive, it is in a bad state and cannot boot.
The article you quote indicates that only clean installations of Windows 10 or Windows 11 may enable BitLocker drive encryption. The article is also wrong, I just got through installing both Windows 10 and Windows 11 to VMs this weekend, and in both cases BitLocker was not enabled.
Recently when I tried to boot Windows, BitLocker asked me to enter the recovery key every single time after I entered the PIN. My machine is a Fujitsu Lifebook E547, which uses UEFI with Secure Boot and TPM both enabled, with the default boot entry being GRUB2 from which I loaded Windows Boot Manager.
3 My data drive (D) was encrypted with BitLocker, and I had a normal Windows installation running on my OS drive (C). I wanted to wipe the D drive, which was as simple as Windows Explorer > right click D drive > Format.
When a clean installation of Windows is completed and the out-of-box experience is finished, the device is prepared for first use. As part of this preparation, device encryption is initialized on the OS drive and fixed data drives on the computer with a clear key that is the equivalent of standard BitLocker suspended state.
Is there a way to install and dual boot Ubuntu / Fedora along with Windows 11 without disabling bitlocker encryption? Possible approach The other solution for continuing to use Bitlocker extending ...
0 The bitlocker .BEK file is a protected operating system file, which is not visible on Windows by default. It is not just a "normal" hidden file. How to make the .BEK file visible: On Windows 10 and 11: In Windows Explorer choose Options to open the Folder Options dialogue.
