I am afraid this is not correct.
I just installed 24H2 on my PC, official ISO downloaded directly from the Microsoft website (available to everyone without signing in), after formatting and clean installation I checked Bitlocker and I don’t see it enabled on any of my partitions, including the system partition.
Edit: Fixed typo.
It’s important to note this tidbit:
“If you clean install Windows 11 later this year or buy a new PC with 24H2 installed, BitLocker device encryption will be enabled by default. If you just upgrade to 24H2, Microsoft won’t enable device encryption automatically.”
Of course that could change, but for now those who update from 22H2 or 23H2 don’t need to worry.
Also, if you install a new copy of 24H2 with a local account, Bitlocker won’t be activated by default.
This seems like the best option.
I have a clean installation of a 24H2 local account and I do not have Bitlocker enabled. (I didn’t know that was why “Local account”)
It is best to do oobe\bypassnro
What it tells you is that we are going to connect to an F10 network and magically we will skip the step…It doesn’t count.
No Network…
Yep. They make it quite difficult, but if you pay close attention to the steps listed in online guides, it works very well.
I opted to run this debloated installer instead, which gave me very granular control over pretty much everything (including stopping updates other than security.)
Bitlocker will royally screw you over if you dual-boot or physically swap drives between machines with different OSes (I do the latter).
Loose the key? Sucks to be you. For many users it’s just security theatre - ask the guy who ran Silk Road. Tge. FBI grabbed his laptop while he was using it - all his data was available to them.
I just did a Windows 11 in-system update/install
(downloaded the ISO then mounted it)
and then ran Windows 11 setup for 24H2.
I don’t have Bitlocker enabled.
****you can back up an encrypted drive as an encrypted image and later restore it to the drive in its encrypted form.
To perform a full image backup of an encrypted drive, you need to use a backup software that allows you to capture the entire disk image, including the encryption, while ensuring you provide the necessary decryption key during the backup process to access the data; this usually involves selecting the encrypted drive as the source and specifying the decryption credentials within the backup application settings.
But I have to wonder, WHY are you running Games on an PC with Encrypted Drives ?
Afraid someone is going to “steal” your High Scores ? 