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I have a ASUS ROG Zephyrus 2021. I am trying to factory reset my laptop, but when I tried I got stuck on the BitLocker Recover screen. When I enter my BitLocker Code, I get this error message from my laptop (image). When I close it, it brings me back to the BitLocker screen. F11 and ESC also bring me back to BitLocker. What do I do?

Hi i updated the bios and after that this message appeared. I have: asus tuf gaming b550-plus wifi II and ryzen 5 5600 I also a dont have os in this pc because i just build it. I didn’t save bitlocker because i was waching the tutorial How to set up a pc last guide you ever need form LTT and it didn’t mention that a have to save the bitlocker.

I have an Intel Framework and I have been using an eGPU (Sonnet w/ 2080ti) for about a week now. I've only connected and turned on the laptop with the eGPU connected 3-4 times so far. However, twice I had to enter a Bitlocker Recovery key when turning on the laptop. Any idea whats going on or how to stop this? It'll be really annoying if this becomes regular. I know bitlocker is mostly for storage and affects if the storage is removed and re-added, but I haven't touched either the system's storage in the chassis or my storage usb c extension (the one that is an official framework accessory).

So, it has been about a full week since I have been trying to setup hardware encryption on a Samsung 990 Pro 1To as well as a Samsung 980 Pro 2To, both slotted in an ASUS ProArt Studiobook (H7600ZX). Please bear with me as I am aware of my very limited knowledge in this specific field of computer science... I have tried so many things that I pretty much lost count at this point, even while taking notes on the side: Some notes to lay down some known facts: My BIOS/UEFI is up to date My SSDs firmware is up to date My Windows 11 iso is the latest available I do not seem to have any "BlockSID" related options in the bios Whenever I used the PowerShell commands to disable BlockSID and rebooted I was never greeted by a screen acknowledging the commands unlike I've seen in various forum posts I did a "secure erase" of my drives too many times for me to even count by now (on Samsung Magician my OS drive health stats show a 2To written on what was a brand new drive last week and only had Windows installed multiple times and to then be erased again and again...) Whenever I tried to force BitLocker to use Hardware encryption by disabling Software Encryption fallback through either registry edits or group policies, it always gave me an error as it wasn't able to encrypt the drives Samsung Magician's "Encrypted Drive" is and has been stuck at "Ready to enable" no matter what I tried/did I tried several things that may have no correlation and didn't seem to change anything: Resetting TPM keys, my reasoning being that maybe something saved in it that kept the drive in "Ready to encrypt" even after a "secure erase" (might have been useless so I restored them) Trying to use the PowerShell commands to act on the "BlockSID" was a nightmare since as it allegedly resets after each reboot, how am I supposed to install Windows with it still disabled...? Any and every idea/advice/knowledge on the matter is deeply appreciated! N.B.: It's past 5am here and my brain is fried so I will complete and update the post after some rest... In the meantime here's a few of the source material I've come across trying to troubleshoot the issue: EDIT: I also read the following, which made me think that this may be an issue related to my laptop's motherboard: Source: Enable bitlocker hardware encryption without reinstalling Windows 10 pro - Super User How do I check if my laptop's motherboard supports this feature? The official manual doesn't seem to talk about encryption at all: 0409_E19193_W7600Z_H7600Z_A.pdf (asus.com) On the manufacturer's website the specs listed regarding security lack any meaningful related information:

Hello there! I do have a broken 1.5 TB hard drive. S.M.A.R.T. tests C5 and C6 are at 198/199. R/W speeds are basically non existent. It was enrypted by bitlocker and Windows currently tries to decrpyt it but doesn't move on. I wanted to save the data from this drive but (i guess) due to bitlocker using all the capacity left on this drive i can't. Does anybody have an idea how to get to the data? I thought about mirroring the drive sector by sector but unfortunally I do not have a drive big enought for the whole partition allthough only about 700 gb of Data is used. But with bitlocker activated i cant just shrink the partition. Thanks!

I always get the message "An internal error was detected." when I try to enable BitLocker on my notebook (HP EliteBook x360 1030 G2). I have a Windows 11 Pro licence, am an administrator and UAC is on. What should I do next?

Found this Solution for a weird Problem, so thought i would share by making a trouble shoot post so any unlucky friends can find this solution Computer says Bitlocker isn't on/Used Space Only Encrypted But it is active -Solution 1. Check status Open CMD/ Type: manage-bde -status 2. If says “ Decrypted “ or “ Used Space Only Encrypted “ but Bitlocker is enabled / blocking you from doing something to get it off…. Take these next steps……. 1. If it think bit locker is off, then enable it Control Panel/ System and Security/ BitLocker Drive Encryption/ Turn Bitlocker On/ ( Restart computer normally ) 2. Get the Bit locker key by repeating step 1 to get to the Bitlocker Menu in control panel Click Backup BitLocker Key/ Print or Save PDF/ Write down the Recovery Key ( Only Numbers No Letters ) 3. Boot Windows into Recovery Mode Hold Shift when click Restart 4. Once loaded follow goto Troubleshoot/ Command Prompt 5. Enter Recovery key when asked 6. Enter Command to Decrypt Enter: Manage-bde -off C: ( or whichever drive letter it is thats encrypted ) Notes: To check on Progress type manage-bde -status until encryption status is at 0.00% Then close CMD with the red X in top right and continue to boot into windows normally

First post here, Usually I can figure most of my computer related problems but this one is throwing me for a loop. Making this clear first: The data is important but not needed. I will not send the drive off anywhere. The entire drive was encrypted before data was placed on it. I believe I selected the option for compatibility. Issue: I plug up my portable ssd into a computer that has bitlocker on it, type in the password, select unlock, and bitlocker/ssd freezes up. The bitlocker password screen won't go away unless the drive is disconnected. Most hard drive tools/software don't seem to have the ability to reformat/remove bitlocker - I didn't invest much time in this area... maybe I missed something. Troubleshooting: I've tried different enclosures with different cables etc. I've tried USB 3 and USB 2. I've tried using the key to unlock the drive and same result. I've tried it on a desktop and a laptop both running windows 10. I've tried a couple cmd commands with no luck. Maybe missed some too. I've tried some software and windows to reformat drive with no luck (duh; encryption). Did not try: Running it on windows 7 (may try on a vm but don't see this option helping). Burning it in a fire. I attached screenshots. 1st is the bitlocker password screen **Looks just the picture, nothing happens. This is when the correct password (or key) is used and you press enter or hit unlock. When the wrong password (or key) is used, it states that it's incorrect and doesn't freeze up.** 2nd is just the disk in computer management. **Everything shows up before the password is entered. I can see the sabrent and the ssd information. When the password is used and you go to computer management to load the disks, computer management freezes up. When the drive is disconnected, computer management starts behaving properly. Hardware WD Blue SA510 - - ~6months old ~150gb of data written to it SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP) Gaming Desktop - Custom - Windows 10 Gaming Laptop - MSI - Windows 10 If I can wipe bitlocker off the disk using some function I'm not aware of or some software I haven't tried, I would like to try that to be able to run some scans on the SSD. However, if there is a chance someone has a solution, I would prefer that! My guess is a bad drive. Any help is greatly appreciated. I feel as if LLT forums is the best place to try and get this resolved. I searched around on here a little and a lot on the web. I don't believe I've ever posted on any forum asking for a solution so any help is greatly appreciated!! For those of you who may ask a question, I'll try to answer as soon as I can. Thank you.

I'm aware it isn't possible with the boot drive (so password is necessary), so I'm asking about the secondary drive. I found an old laptop (Toshiba Satellite P755 with 2nd Gen i7) from work, which doesn't have TPM along with a 128GB SSD. And I'm planning on making its 500GB hard drive the secondary drive. Company policy requires Bitlocker enabled on internal drives.

Recently I have used my 5TB external HDD to re-install Windows on a laptop I am selling. I created a separate partition to boot the windows installation on the laptop, well I screwed up by ignoring the warnings thinking it will only "wipe" the boot partition and now my data from partitions I was using is "unallocated". This disk had 2 partitions (except the boot one), main one with most of the disk size and a BitLocker password encrypted one of about a 100GB. Main partition was filled with ~2.5TB of data and a BitLocker partition was filled up with ~50GB of data. I have the recovery key for the BitLocker drive. Now when I open the disk management tool in Windows it shows it like this: "New volume" is completely empty and I assume the "Unallocated" space is where my data is, and I need to recover it, also when I right click on the unallocated space the options to create a new simple volume are greyed out. How would I be able to recover the data and especially how can I recover the encrypted BitLocker partition properly? What software could I use (highly preferably free, or max up to 50€) that would be able to recover the data and divide it into its original partition properly?

Hello everyone, need a little bit of guidance here I am planning for quite an upgrade leap on my PC which include new motherboard, CPU (from Intel to Ryzen), and RAM Basically I will need to do fresh install of Windows 10 too So before I do the upgrade, I want to make sure on everything is good so I don't get locked out or With that, currently I have one drive E: which consist my data encrypted using Bitlocker Drive E: is a single 3TB HDD while the system currently is different drive 250GB SSD My question is, what happen to drive E: if I just do the upgrade and fresh install? Will I still be able to unlock it later without issue? Currently I am at decrypting process (at 20%) just to be safe but feel like this going to take too long And I want to do the upgrade like tomorrow before the safety purchase service expired (in about 18 hours or so)

Hello i recently got my Personal Computer back up and running from being tired for personal/medical reasons.. Anyway i set-up Bitlocker Drive Encryption for Windows 10 Pro x64 (64-Bit) Activated 2004 OS Build 19041.572 Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.31.0 However i was stupid enough because it's a USB Mass Storage Device (Removeable) Docking Station with DISK 1&2 as shown I finished the Bitlocker Drive Encryption and it FAILED! Now something went wrong during restart/startup/boot that caused Windows to corrupt the entire encryption procces/drives 1&2 I am NOT going to format data and risk my DATA!! all is untouched after the failed encryption attempt now Windows 10 prompts me this Screens: FAILED TO MAKE A BACKUP ... AM a regular consumer so dont blame me pls I want all my data back and recovered i have BOTH encryption keys all keys are back up and on USB/BACKUP keys Any help is much apreciated and Thanks!

To whomsoever visits and comments(Helps me)on this thread, I'm grateful to you in advance. My friend's I want to create a Multi-boot External SSD(Samsung T7) having Windows 10, Ubuntu and Kali Linux installed. I want to keep my M.2 SSD clean for gaming and my Video Production. If I encrypt my M.2 SSD with Bitlocker, will it be accessible or can it be altered in any way from the above mentioned Multi-boot Drive? My goal here is to keep my M.2 SSD safe and secure from the Multi-boot Drive. I'm open to your creative as well as technical advice. Thank you.

I'm having an issue with my laptop where it randomly decides to boot to a "bitlocker recovery" page, rather than booting into windows. This is the third or fourth time it's happened, and it seems to come completely at random. All I have to do to get it to boot into windows normally is force shut down the laptop and turn it back on, but I have no idea what this bitlocker page is, or why it keeps popping up. Any input on what this is or why it's happening would be greatly appreciated. I've attached a photo below of what the screen looks like. .

Hey there!! I will go straight to my point so i dual boot my laptop with Kubuntu and Got some problems with it. I hope you people can help me out. Problems: 1)My D drive can't be accessed without giving the recovery password so every time so i want to remove that protection of D drive. 2)TIme of windows machine gets changed after booting into windows from linux. 3)The scaling of my logging display manager which is sddm is 100% i want that to set 200%. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, I am trying to enable BitLocker on my boot drive and have enabled fTPM to do so. However, I do keep getting the following error message: The path specified in the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) for a BitLocker Drive Encryption integrity-protected application is incorrect. Please verify and correct your BCD settings and try again. I have also tried the steps to point to my C:\ drive but the error still remains. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/error-message-when-you-try-to-run-the-bitlocker-drive-encryption-program-cannot-run-39e3c3f5-4f5f-242c-504a-ee55e5015eee I am running off a NVME SSD with only the following partitions: Recovery Partition EFI System Partition C:\ Does anyone have any clue on what I could be missing?

Lenovo Yoga 920-13ikb bios 5NCN41WW currently with Win11, likely upgraded from Win10 in the past From approximately 2017-2018 Helping someone with their Laptop, it was working fine no problems, I went to the Windows Update, and it had Optional update of Lenovo Firmware, the UEFI update, I did that, and it said to restart. After restart, Bitlocker goes into recovery mode. PC Owner never printed their Bitlocker Recovery Key. They have 2 Windows Users, I only went into 1 of the users, and it was a Local User, not a Microsoft Account User, so it appears that Bitlocker Recovery cannot be accessed from a MS Account. I never saw the other user, so it is possible that it is a MS Account with synced Bitlocker Recovery Key, so I asked the PC owner to log into their MS account from another device, but I followed directions from MS, and MS account explicitly said there was no Bitlocker synced device in their settings. PC Owner likely never setup Bitlocker themselves, it likely came from Lenovo as part of their OEM Win11 that way. I have seen many computers with Bitlocker device encryption already activated the first time you boot into windows. If this is so, where does Lenovo originally provide the recovery key? They must provide it to the purchaser somewhere! It seems to me that in theory, if I perform a UEFI/BIOS version rollback, it will fit the Bitlocker checksum, or TPM key checksum or whatever it is called. I would also expect there is a button to push somewhere to revert the UEFI back a version. If this obvious feature is not provided by Lenovo, then my next question is if I manually perform a UEFI rollback, does that step destroy the TPM Key? If it destroys the TPM key, then it will not fix the Bitlocker issue. I have seen multiple situations on other computers where if I make a change to the EFI partition for example, then bitlocker recovery mode happens, then if i revert the change, bitlocker recovery mode goes away. That is what I am suggesting with the UEFI rollback. I am well aware of the difference between the UEFI motherboard settings and the EFI partition on the disk, no low hanging fruit to grab there. Lastly, of course no one will be shocked that the PC Owner has no backups of her files, and no cloud sync of her files. What options are left? I will try anything, thank you everyone so much!

I was trying to install ubuntu on my laptop running windows 11 and when I did it said that the ubuntu installation would not work because bitlocker was on, as I exited the setup manager to turn bitlocker off it locked by main drive and is asking for my key. This would normally be fine as it directs you to a link for your Microsoft account and you would find it there and be done with it, the issue is that when I go there its the Microsoft website and it says something along the lines of "we have nothing for you here". basically, how do I go about requesting my bitlocker key from ms? thanks

Hello. I had problems with motherboard and received replacement from distributor. I don't remember having Bitlocker and fTPM enabled. My SSD OS drive was encrypted by VeraCrypt which doesn't store encryption key in fTPM if I am correct. After powering on the system this is the error that pops up. The image is not mine but the error is the same. While I was looking for solution on the internet the PC turned off by itself. I read that people had this message pop up out of nowhere despite making no changes to their PC's hardware. It never happened in my case though. What if the replacement I received was previously tested and they turned on fTPM for motherboard to work in Windows 11? They also tested with different CPU most likely. I don't know if they updated the firmware to the latest but if they did what if fTPM was turned on by default? I read that fTPM protects software and hardware from unauthorized access. I thought about entering BIOS and disabling fTPM but what if it will deny me access and brick my hardware? Could motherboard lock to CPU they tested with? What should I do? Thanks. Specifications: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Gigabyte Aorus Elite B450 rev 1.0 2x8GB 3200MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 Corsair TX650M

So I went ahead and got bitlocker all setup on my new system, but now I cannot access my BIOS at all. I’ve tried hammering my del key to death and using Windows’ feature to take me to BIOS on reboot. Is this an avoid BitLocker and clear cmos situation? How do I get back into BIOS, even if it means giving Microsoft the middle-finger and going for something like VeraCrypt?

Hello! I was trying to buy a cheap windows tablet for school with my savings and the tablet I bought apparently hasn’t been reset so I factory reset it. Everything was going well until I reach an American megatrends page to reset the TPM and I said yes since I wanted to wipe everything from the tablet but after that it asked “ enter the recovery key to get going again” I didn’t have any key so I chose “skip this drive” and it brought me to another page saying something around the lines of “the reset didn’t happen and all of the files and stuff are in touched I have to reset the tablet again if I want to reset it” and then it rebooted and I just waited maybe it will go back to windows so I can reset again but I was wrong it just kept rebooting and rebooting it would show the brand logo and shut off then after a few seconds show the brand logo again it doesn’t even begin to boot With the turning dots thingy yeah it doesn’t even do that. It just shows the brand logo and shuts off and turn on again and now it’s just stuck like that and I haven’t even gotten able to use it yet can someone please help me? thank you ps: I can access the bios but that’s about it.

My friend was given an old laptop and it has a bitlocker on it. No one seems to know what the key is or how to get it. There are no important files on the drive so I tried to install a fresh windows with the installation media tool, but the tool did not see the drive. What are the next options for restoring the drive.

A friend of mine has been locked out of her Laptop thanks to this program does anyone know a method to get her into her Laptop again? She already tried many things and simply does not know how to get in fixed.

I've had this 1tb Verbatim portable hard drive for about 3 years. I use it for back-ups and school. It has worked great with all of the computers I plug it into. Until now. I recently bought a Dell XPS 13 9360, and have been using the portable hdd with the note book for about two months. Now when I was using the hard drive to back-up my main computer, Windows (7) said that the drive is locked. I found this highly unusual as my XPS works fine with the drive. So I then plugged the drive into another Windows (10) pc, and I got an error message: "this drive is locked by bitlocker" (or something to that effect). For the past while I have been searching for a solution, and discovered that only the "Pro" versions of Windows have bitlocker. My XPS has Windows 10 Home, so I shouldn't have access to bitlocker. I couldn't find a setting to disable bitlocker, nor could I find the authentication key. TL;DR Drive locked by bitlocker, only accessible by new PC. How to unlock. What do I do to unlock the drive for other users/computers?

Hello, Looking for some advice on whether I should use the included Samsung encryption software with my external SSD. I know a huge vulnerability was found in this: Article. Supposedly it's been patched out, but I'm wondering if using Bitlocker on this drive would be a more secure solution. I would also disable Bitlocker automatically using the crypto hardware on the drive as it uses this by default. Even though in the same article, a Bitlocker vulnerability is also highlighted...(sigh) Any advice? Thanks in advance!