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BitLocker cannot be enabled I have a surface pro 3 with windows 10. My bitlocker has had this weird yellow triangle on my local drive implying it wasn't working properly, so I decrypted the drive. As already stated the Windows 8.1 upgrade wipes out the WinRE environment from the recovery partition. If you look in Disk Manager the partition is now empty when under Windows 8 there was content. You can also confirm this by running.

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As already stated the Windows 10 upgrade wipes out the WinRE environment from the recovery partition. If you look in Disk Manager the partition is now empty when under Windows 8 there was content. You can also confirm this by running. This tutorial contains instructions on how to disable the BitLocker protection and to decrypt a BitLocker encrypted drive in the Windows Recovery Environment. The instructions can be useful, if your computer is BitLocker-protected and doesn't accept the Bitlocker recovery key or the BitLocker password at system startup and you cannot unlock the BitLocker protected drive.

I'd like to enable Bitlocker, but during the verification step, the following error is displayed, with no options to continue:

This PC deosn't support entering a BitLocker recovery password during startup. Ask your administrator to configure Windows Recovery Environment so that you can use BitLocker.

The 'administrator' in this case is me, and I don't:

  1. .. understand why this has happened
  2. .. know how to fix the issue, as if it's really necessary to make this change, what would I do?
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This worked well with Windows 10, with a couple of tweaks, swapping steps 5 & 6. You must use the FORMAT command before exiting DISKPART. Also, if like me you have upgraded from 8.1 to Enterprise, to Windows 10 you might have multiple recovery partitions. You can use reagent /info beforehand to check which partition is currently being used. The reagent /enable process failed when I tried to change to an older recovery volume.

  1. Start CMD as Administrator, enter DISKPART
  2. Enter LIST VOLUME
  3. Then select the recovery volume with SELECT VOLUME x where x is the corresponding number of the volume
  4. Enter ASSIGN LETTER=Q (to assign the letter Q:/ to the recovery partition)
  5. Enter FORMAT fs=ntfs label='Recovery' quick override where label='Recovery' is optional and works with any other name as well
  6. Enter EXIT to leave diskpart
  7. Run Robocopy.exe C:WindowsSystem32Recovery Q:RecoveryWindowsRE /copyall /dcopy:t
  8. Run reagentc /setreimage /path Q:RecoveryWindowsRE
  9. Run reagentc /enable
  10. Run reagentc /info to check whether the setup worked, 'WinRe-Status' should be enabled now
  11. Use DISKPART to remove the drive letter previously assigned to the recovery partition. To do that repeat steps 1. to 3. and then enter REMOVE LETTER=Q
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As already stated the Windows 8.1 upgrade wipes out the WinRE environment from the recovery partition. If you look in Disk Manager the partition is now empty when under Windows 8 there was content.

You can also confirm this by running

This is fixed by by copying the winre.wim file from the C:WindowsSystem32Recovery folder which recreates the WinRE area in the recovery partition. Here are the steps to accomplish this:

  1. In DISKPART assign a drive letter to the recovery partition (I used Q:)
  2. Run Robocopy.exe C:WindowsSystem32Recovery Q:RecoveryWindowsRE Winre.wim /copyall /dcopy:t
  3. Run reagentc /setreimage /path Q:RecoveryWindowsRE
  4. Run reagentc /enable
  5. Use DISKPART to remove the drive letter previously assigned to the recovery partition.

Confirm it works with:

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As already stated the Windows 8.1 upgrade wipes out the WinRE environment from the recovery partition. If you look in Disk Manager the partition is now empty when under Windows 8 there was content.

You can also confirm this by running

reagentc /info

This is fixed by by copying the winre.wim file from the C:WindowsSystem32Recovery folder which recreates the WinRE area in the recovery partition. Here are the steps to accomplish this:

  1. In DISKPART assign a drive letter to the recovery partition (I used Q:)
  2. Run Robocopy.exe C:WindowsSystem32Recovery Q:RecoveryWindowsREWinre.wim /copyall /dcopy:t
  3. Run reagentc /setreimage /path Q:RecoveryWindowsRE
  4. Run reagentc /enable
  5. Use DISKPART to remove the drive letter previously assigned to the recovery partition.

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Confirm it works with:

reagentc /info

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There needs to be an extra step for this method to work. After you assign the drive letter but before exiting diskpart, run:

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This reformats the partition and the override allows the partition to be formatted. I had run into this same issue while deploying Windows 8.1 to Surface Pro 3 tablets. The Pro 2s that we have all worked fine but there was something funny with the new 3s.

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