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Bitlocker: Failed to enable silent encryption

Praveen Sekar 0 Reputation points
2021-05-24T06:07:48.217+00:00

Hi team,

I am getting the below issues while enabling Bitlocker.

1) Failed to enable Silent Encryption. 

Error: The parameter is incorrect.

System

  • Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-BitLocker-API
    [ Guid] {5d674230-ca9f-11da-a94d-0800200c9a66} EventID 851 Version 0 Level 2 Task 0 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x4000000000000000
  • TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2021-05-24T04:39:42.8046831Z EventRecordID 19
  • Correlation [ ActivityID] {ff7b40e2-1946-4c2c-8113-88dfad826916}
  • Execution [ ProcessID] 10628
    [ ThreadID] 11236 Channel Microsoft-Windows-BitLocker/BitLocker Management Computer ****
  • Security [ UserID] S-1-5-18
    • EventData
    ErrorCode -2147024809

2) Failed to backup BitLocker Drive Encryption recovery information for volume C: to your Azure AD.

TraceId: {351ba3b2-b7d9-4678-9103-efab97e13fe0}

Error: The parameter is incorrect.

Event ID 846

Kindly help me to resolve this issue

Note: I have formatted my system and cleared TPM.

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  1. Lu Dai-MSFT 28,371 Reputation points
    2021-05-25T04:17:00.503+00:00

    anonymous user Thanks for posting in our Q&A.

    To clarify this issue, please check if the device meets the system requirements in the following link:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/bitlocker/bitlocker-overview#system-requirements

    For EventID 851, this error may occur in that the device uses the legacy BIOS. We can read the following article to try to check the BIOS mode.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/bitlocker/ts-bitlocker-intune-issues#issue-4

    For Event ID 846, this error may occurs in windows10, version 1809 devices. Please check the device version, if the device is 1809 version, it is suggested to try to update.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/bitlocker/ts-bitlocker-intune-issues#issue-7

    Hope the above information will help.

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