Bitlocker crashes PC every time - please help

Question

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:

TPM Enabled:

BOOT Mode UEFI:

Install windows after partitioning:

Patching windows after install:

Changing BIOS Boot from usb to harddrive post install:

Enabling secure boot: (have also tried with disabled, same result)

UEFI Mode:

TPM Module available in Device Manager:

Turning on Bitlocker for C:

Then PC going into preparing repair / Drive repair / loop (sorry for danish)

After a while i can get into admin mode and get a CMD and i can see Windows is suddenly on an X: drive:

Please - what am I doing wrong? I am going insane in trying to fix this.

thanks in advance,
Wilmer

Answer 1

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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