I'm going to have to play with Bitlocker now - still I've nothing else to do for the next few weeksįor the bust but now formatted Lenovo, you can down load the windows 10 ISO file from Microsoft ( and burn it to a dvd on the new laptop. I should add that no data will be saved from the bitlocked original installation, so in effect Bitlocker has done it's job. If you're trying to install to a previously bitlocked drive you must first delete all partitions, create a new partition then install. With the new machine you can download a Windows Media installation file to a USB stick which can be used on any machine. The recovery usually deletes all partitions which will include the Bitlocked one so you still wouldn't get the previously stored informationĢnd. The recovery bit pressing F12 referred only to having the old disk in place - sorry should have made that clearer. I had this exact scenario a couple of weeks ago and the new drive worked fine, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.Ģnd. If you fit a new drive and install Windows, bitlocker is not enabled by default on the new installation. Bitlocker (as far as I'm aware) is only enabled for info protection on the specific hard drive - not the whole machine.
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