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Bitlocker crashes PC every time - please help

Wilmer Keddy 21 Reputation points
2021-01-28T08:56:17.857+00:00

Hi everyone,

Hope you're doing well.

I just finished building a new PC, and i wanted to protect the disks with Bitlocker. So I went and bought Windows Pro, as my current Home didnt have bitlocker.

However, every single time (i have installed windows more than 10 times the last 2 days) once I enable bitlocker, Windows asks me to restart so that it can start to encrypt the drive. This, however, leads to endless disk repair runs, and if I finally get to the advanced possibilities, and fetch a command prompt, all of a sudden windows is located on X: instead of C: where i installed it.

EDIT: I have tried to make a new install media with English, on a different usb, it again installs fine, but outcome with Bitlocker is exactly the same.

as it can likely be a lot of things, i will document here what I am doing in Bios etc.:

System:
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TPM Enabled:
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BOOT Mode UEFI:
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Install windows after partitioning:
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Patching windows after install:
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Changing BIOS Boot from usb to harddrive post install:
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Enabling secure boot: (have also tried with disabled, same result)
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UEFI Mode:
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TPM Module available in Device Manager:
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Turning on Bitlocker for C:
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Then PC going into preparing repair / Drive repair / loop (sorry for danish)
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After a while i can get into admin mode and get a CMD and i can see Windows is suddenly on an X: drive:
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Please - what am I doing wrong? I am going insane in trying to fix this.

thanks in advance,
Wilmer

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  1. Jenny Feng 14,101 Reputation points
    2021-01-29T02:05:34.987+00:00

    Hi,
    You could try to disable Automatic Startup Repair ，using the command below to disable.

    bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled No

    bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures

    In addition, here are some posts with the similar issue with yours, just for your reference, you can try the method mentioned in them:
    https://www.eightforums.com/threads/bitlocker-turn-on-or-off-for-os-drive-in-windows-8.21271/page-3#posts
    Please note: Information posted in the given link is hosted by a third party. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy and effectiveness of information.
    Hope above information can help you.

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