Bitlocker only password without TPM (PC with TPM)

Question

Hi, I have a computer with TPM. I would like to encrypt the drive with Bitlocker without TPM (I know this is less secure, but TPM doesn't work for me, it asked for recovery code very often for my application. So I don't want any TPM).

How to encrypt a drive without TPM. (In UEFI, TPM is enabled). When I set the bitocker to work without TPM in gpedit.msc, it uses TPM during encryption - the PIN option appears. Encryption with normal password is not displayed.

Only when in UEFI it turns off TPM completely, then the bitlocker allows you to encrypt the disk with the password only.

How can I achieve the same without disabling TPM in UEFI? I want TPM to be used for other things but not for bitlocker.

PS: I know that after encryption I can just re-enable TPM in UEFI, but can I achieve the same from within Windows 10 / 11?

Sorry for my language, I use machine translation

Answer 1

right click cmd.exe and select "run as administrator".
On the command line that opens, execute:
manage-bde -on c: -rp -pw

Then, you will be asked to enter the password. The recovery key will be displayed right there on the command line and you should copy and paste it to a text file in order to save it on another drive.