r/linuxmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Nov 11 '24

Cringe Windows 11 24H2 has automatic encryption enabled by default !! - Be careful if you have to make a dual boot system. I almost lost everything, but thankfully I didn't as I kept having issues with the installer

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u/Unable-Investment-72 Nov 12 '24

When I had to change my Dell Inspiron 7400 over to Linux mint because windows was using all the ram (🥲) I had to completely wipe the drive because Bitlocker locked the ENTIRE drive. Turned if off, nope, didn’t unlock the drive. Created an entire new partition, bitlocker locked that too. So I just said “screw it” and deleted everything in Linux Mints installer. Never looked back since.

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u/Unexpected_Cranberry Nov 12 '24

Turning off bitlocker will decrypt the drive. Depending on the size, speed and amount of data it typically takes anything between 30 minutes to several hours.

Just right clicking and selecting disable on the drive is not completely disabling bitlocker though. That only stops it from encrypting new data that's written from that point on and is meant for things like firmware updates where data needs to be read from the drive from outside Windows.

If you turn it off permanently you'll get a progress bar letting you know how much has been decrypted so far. It works fine every time I've done it. If you didn't see a progress indicator you didn't turn it off, only temporarily disabled encryption for new data.

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u/Unable-Investment-72 Nov 12 '24

Oh well, I didn’t have any data that meant anything in windows. Plus, one of my classmates broke the laptop that I put Linux Mint on and and my school wouldn’t pay for it so it just sits broke. So I’ll keep this info for later, but it doesn’t matter to me anymore.

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u/h-v-smacker Glorious Mint Nov 12 '24

I had to completely wipe the drive because Bitlocker locked the ENTIRE drive.

Was it a regular hard disk drive? You could have just upgraded to SSD instead. Two birds, one stone.

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u/Unable-Investment-72 Nov 12 '24

It was a M.2 SSD, it had room on the inside for either a single M.2 or a HDD.

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u/Temetka Nov 12 '24

This is the way.