bimfi

Good afternoon to all. I think I finally got my PC working properly. I ended up purchasing new drives. Took the old C: drive and wiped...

Manual boot priority order adjustments are not required to boot from a Windows installation USB flash drive; use the boot menu instead...

"... My BIOS/UEFI is by American Megatrends, but it won't allow me to boot from a USB flash drive." In BIOS there is an option to...

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Thanks! Will check them out 👍

Yes, I believe if I had this info, I probably could have saved a lot of time. Thanks for the post. I will definitely keep this post on...

Probably too late for the OP but maybe will help someone in the future so i'll post this. Same or similar issue on 3 machines, one old...

@bimfi Now that's how Disk Management should look. :-) You should mark your topic as solved (upper right), when you're done with it.

Good evening to all. I think I finally got my PC working properly. I ended up purchasing new drives. Took the old C: drive and wiped it...

If you don't need bitlocker you could turn it off for each drive. Control Panel>All Control Panel Items>Bitlocker Drive Enccryption

Go to: Settings > Privacy & security > Device encryption Turn it Off.

Thank you all! Yes, I don’t think I need bitlocker especially since I didn’t even know it was on. I will basically rebuild my PC and...

Clean Install Windows 11 IMPORTANT: You will have to have the encryption key to unlock all those other drives when you reconnect them...

Both Bitlocker and device encryption encrypts partitions(volumes), not the physical disks. Every encrypted partition has its own...

I was planning on purchasing 2 new drives. A 2T SSD for c: drive (Disk 0), and a 2T HDD drive for storage (Disk 1). My existing storage...