Help With Bitlocker After Removing Encrypted HDD and Placing in Another Laptop
At work I have a users laptop that is not booting properly due to a mother board issue. I took the hard drive out and placed into a laptop that the mother board is working properly. It is the same exact model as the other laptop. The problem I am having is that everytime I boot up it asks for the recovery key, which I know it is suppose to do this, and I have put in the correct key and everything boots up fine and I can access the hard drive. The thing I want to know is how can I fix it to where at boot it will not ask for this key? How do I set this in bit locker? Will I need to decrypt the drive and then re encrypt? Please help!
June 14th, 2011 10:23pm

Hi, From your description, It seems the system volume had been encrypted by Bitlocker. Please understand, Windows must decrypt the system volume before booting. As a workaround, you could decrypt the volume via a flash storage. Otherwise, you may decrypt the system volume, and keep another partition encrypted. Hope that helps Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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June 17th, 2011 3:38am

The other machine which has a different mother board and a different TPM chip which does not know anything about bitlocker information on HDD. You will have to add TPM as a protector from command line. >manage-bde -protectors -add -tpm C: where C is the drive letter. Once this is done, run the below command to check if TPM is listed in list of protectors. >manage-bde -protectors -get c: Reboot the system, it will not prompt you for recovery key.Manoj Sehgal
June 17th, 2011 8:43am

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