Bitlocker

I'm facing a serious issue after attempting to upgrade my computer's storage. I decided to install a Samsung 990 NVMe SSD, replacing my 860 EVO. I backed up all my data to a traditional HDD, which remained connected in my computer during the installation process. That was my mistake, I neglected...

Yesterday I did an experiment, I wanted to see what happens if I enter the wrong BitLocker PIN too many times. Well, now I find out what happens! For some reason, today my PINs (both BitLocker PIN and the Windows login PIN) and fingerprint are not recognized anymore. The only thing still working...

I have a problem. I have a PC with a 240 GB SSD and a 2 TB SSD and two 4 TB HDD. The UEFI bios only shows the 240 ssd as bootable after a clean reinstall of win 11 (with USB media) even though I installed win 11 home on the 2TB ssd. If I boot on it, it says a file file missing, and it gives me...

My son's school has a PC that died. He took the HDD out, and plugged it into another PC as an external drive, hoping to be able to recover the files, so he could transfer them to a new PC. However, it asked him for a BitLocker key. As far as he knows, no-one ever activated or used BitLocker on...

I have just upgraded from a ryzen 5 2600 to a ryzen 7 5700x, running on an asus prime b450m-a. CPU fan was going crazy on startup then calmed down, and I got an error message saying the fTPM was corrupted or structure changed. I have bitlocker enabled on my OS drive (I have windows 10), and I...

I have a new system and running Windows 11 PRO. The PC is all installed and Win 11 is installed on an SSD. I then installed my 3.5" sata 6TB drive with no probem that had been installed in my Windows 10 machine. I then had to take the drive and put back into the win 10 machine to copy some...

Hi guys, I faced a Software Issue yesterday and had no option but reinstalling windows, but the problem is that all 3 SSD Partitions were encrypted by Bitlocker. after installing the OS the Partitions other that C:/ are not showing up, I also accidentally deleted one of them in OS installation...

The title says it all, unfortunately. I recently swapped my Windows over to a larger SSD. The cloning process disabled BitLocker on the new drive and I just went to re-enable it. The process seemed to go well, and I got my identifier and recovery key. I restarted my PC when it requested it and...

Hey all, family friend asked me for some support with one of their business computers. Old machine crapped out on them and I was able to get the 400GB Lexar SSD out of the machine and create an non-Bitlockered backup using Macrium Reflect on an external drive to verify all data and files are...

TLDR; I would like to know if by suspending the decrytpion process during it is in progress, can I now remove the disk safely from my computer while the decryption is still unfinished, without putting my data at risk? [Moderator edit to break up solid paragraph/wall of text.} Hello everybody...

Good morning, I am responsible for all the computers in my department at my university. Our replacement policy for computers are 4 years for laptops and 5 years for desktops. When a staff member upgrades to a new PC / Laptop, we remove the storage device (hard drive or SSD) from the old...

I encrypted a USB memory stick using Bitlocker on Windows 11 Pro (23H2), then removed it and checked that I could read it on another Windows 11 machine. No problem - I could read it fine. However I then re-inserted it into the original machine (the one used to encrypt it), and was told: " The...

Hello, i bought and installed bitlocker months ago. and back then it locked the PC at boot. just after the hardware specs page that comes seconds after a boot it prompted a page with a password. no password no access to windows. it was great as i have sensitive professional data on the HDD/SSD...

I just finished a build: Ryzen 5 5600k Nvidia 3060 Ti 1TB Samsung SSD 2X8 GB Vengence RAM Corsair 4000x case Asus prime B550M-A Wifi II Motherboard And it booted fine, using my second PC to get a windows 10 home install it installed fine and no issues. When I first got into the PC after that I...

I have an acer 2tb ssd which does not offere bitlocker encyrption. I've used bitlocker on other ssds of the exact same model. The ssd is not a dynamic disk. All other internal drives on this pc have bitlocker enabled. I've rebooted etc. No errors reported on the drive. This seems to be a rare...

Laptop model: HP 17-cn0273st; Purchased Oct '23 Windows 11 23H2 512GB NVMe SSD 8GB RAM This system started out lightning fast to boot (seemed like 5-10 seconds), then got a little slower as MS Office and other apps were added, and seemed to settle at 30-45 seconds. I was OK with that. Then...

I have windows 10 installed on a m.2 NVMe drive and windows 11 on a separate ssd. I turned on bitlocker for my windows 10 installation so that windows 11 won't have access to the files on Windows 10. It saved the recovery key on a flash drive and I printed it out as well. I went through the...

Hi, i want to use Bitlocker to protect my C Drive, but i watched a Video of someone bypass Bitlocker without a key by just enabling TPM, so what's the point of it ? the video i'm talking aboit you can start watching from 2:12 : View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ghT5V3yYpM

Just a discussion about Samsung 990 PRO support of hardware encryption, as none of the reviews mention this defect, and Samsung simply ignoring this issue in their support tickets & community The product specification page have this drive encryption support listed as Using the latest...

I have some SSDs that were formatted using diskpart clean, not clean all. Since then I have decided to use bitlocker and encrypt the full drive and just wanted to check that this method will encrypt everything on the drive, even previously deleted data? My worry is that because it has been...

A bit of a strange one. I have a Dell XPS 15 Laptop - 9570 if I remember rightly. A couple of days ago the whole windows interface and explorer begun to randomly freeze, sometimes without any applications even running. A restart would fix it but then over time it would freeze again. This got...

Lenovo Yoga 920-13ikb bios 5NCN41WW currently with Win11, likely upgraded from Win10 in the past From approximately 2017-2018 TPM 2.0, Intel PTT Bitlocker Recovery: “You need to enter your recovery key because Secure Boot policy has unexpectedly changed.” I was helping someone with their...

Hi all I'm trying to recover videos from 2 external USB drives which are Bitlocker encrypted (one Seagate Backup Plus 4TB, and one Western Digital My passport Ultra 4TB) but results are quite bad. After deleting the files (SHIFT+DEL) I did not write on the disks, so there shouldn't be any...

I have a microsoft surface pro tablet (windows 10 home) that recently went into a blue screen loop. None of the repair options worked so I'm content to just wipe data and reinstall OS. But it's requesting bitlocker encryption key and I have no way to acquire it. I've tried several diskpart...

This is just a warning to the community. I have a Surface Pro 3, installed the windows 11 Release preview on it some time ago. I only use local accounts, no online MS bs. I found my drive was encrypted with Bitlocker, when i tried to save the key it would not allow it. I was forced to sign in...

Hello, so i want to dual boot windows 10 and windows 7 on my primary rig. i want to use windows 7 for legacy phone rooting, legacy iphones and just for older devices i own. Problem is that i am afraid to lose my data if i install windows 7. I have integrated tpm 2.0 enabled in my asus bios...

Hi, I am a personal laptop user. Recently I have reset my laptop, reset was successful to reset windows in C Drive. However, my D & E drives got locked by bitlocker automatically. I have spoken with Microsoft about this problem and they suggested that this error was caused due to a glitch in...

My dell laptop has windows 10 in it. Suddenly it's asking for a password instead of a pin. I know it has lots of viruses. now I am unable to log in. and it also not connected with my Microsoft account. I tried to reset it with a windows 10 bootable USB. then I found that it c and d both drives...

I have an HP computer that is on a bootloop (preparing automatic repair> diagnosing PC >restart because windows update screwed it again. I need to save the data in it, however the drive is encrypted with BitLocker now when I go to reset this PC it gives the message "You need to sign in as an...

I booted my SSD today and I got the Orange Screen of Death. My screen is covered in vertical white and orange bars and I have no idea how to fix it. I turned off my PC and tried rebooting. It booted up, however this time I was on the HDD. I checked Device Manager, and even after waiting 15+...

I'm planning to buy a HP Envy 15-ep0813 computer, but I've spent hours trying to understand if that has TPM-like support so that I don't need to enter a passowrd prelogon, which for me is a must. I sadly cannot get hold of the HP support either, so turning to this forum instead. It has the...

Hey guys. I have recently got me a brandnew Seagate Exos 10TB Enterprise HDD and I have used over 80% of its free space. The Harddrive is 100% healthy right now. I'm taking this HDD to my office and I have to encrypt the whole disk to protect my sensitive data. When harddrives get older...

hi my asus fx505 comes with original win 10 home edition, yet i need to use bitlocker for my internal HDD (dont want it on ssd) ofc i can open the laptop and take out the HDD and connect it to my PC with enterprise edition of win 10 and encrypt it and then put it in laptop.... but i dont want...

Hello, I was wondering if Lenovo Legion Y540-17IHR (the one with i7 CPU and GTX1060ti on board) laptops support Hardware Encryption with BitLocker and eDrive? I'm talking about procedure that is described in here...

Hi everybody. I have a Surface Laptop 2 (not the surface tablet) that is one year & 2 weeks old. Out of warranty by 2 weeks... lol All of a sudden when I booted it up the laptop blue screened. No problem, I rebooted, worked for a minute or two, another blue screen. Endless blue screen loop...

Went to reset this pc, remove everything it then wanted me to input BitLocker key. I’ve reset this pc before, and it did not ask for that before. So, went to UEFI Firmware Settings under Advanced options to check Secure boot settings. Secure boot was already on. Then pressed reset to set up...

Hello, im having a little problem applying GPO for certain security group only. Ive created a group called group1. Ive also created an OU where i linked the GPO. I have moved myself and security group called group1 to that OU. Then i added myself to be a member of group1. In the GPO i filtered...

Hello, my question is about bitlocker. I have gone through many different tutorials and websites, and been trying to get this to work for 7 hours now. No luck so far. My simple question is how to enable bitlocker for domain laptops? So if it gets stolen for example, and leaves domain, then the...

I have a Windows 10 laptop; which i need to update, however i cannot remove the Bitlocker Blue loader screen on startup which asks for my password every time . Bitlocker has been removed from my system and not showing when i check on c: prompt I need to remove the requirement for the...

Hi, I have a laptop with bit locker encryption. I replaced my hard with another non encrypted hard disk and installed fresh windows on it. Now when plug my encrypted drive via usb3 and tries to bot via it.... bit locker asks for recovery key which i can provide and boot from it. My questions...