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Vaquita marina

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Registered: 2021-05-19

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Bitlock

i create a partition from windows to save my important files, and then install arch without touching the partition, and now I get that it is encrypted with bitlock . Do you know how to force entry?

mpan

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Re: Bitlock

You can’t. This is the point of encrypting things.

It is also unlikely that installation of Arch has caused that: Linux has no support for BitLocker volumes, so it couldn’t create one. You have done that yourself from under Windows.

The only other explanation I could find for a similar behaviour, but it would still require you to first create a BitLocker volume under Windows, is installation of a bootloader — e.g. GRUB — and starting Windows through it or disabling Secure Boot.

Also, please update the topic to be descriptive and note that the name is “BitLocker”, not “Bitlock”

Last edited by mpan (2021-07-27 05:23:10)

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