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An upgrade to 24H2 doesn't encrypt the disks unless you did a clean install using 24H2 media?Beware of upgrading to 24H2 unless you really know you are going to like it.
I tried it (having first performed an image backup of my 23H2 system disk using Macrium Reflect 8) and didn’t like it, so restored the image backup to my system disk, only to then find out that the upgrade to 24H2 had silently installed Bitlocker and encrypted all three of my internal disk drives. Of course, I hadn’t been told what the encryption key was during the upgrade process, so the contents of all those disks was lost forever! Luckily, I had backups of the important stuff, so I could reformat the affected disks and restore from the backups – over 4 hours of unnecessary work!!!
I went from 23H2 to 24H2 with no encryption, once using Windows Update and then doing a 24H2 > 24H2 repair install using an offical MS ISO (not Rufus-created). Nothing got encrypted.
MS account and TPM active during the installs
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