Solved BitLocker & Clean Installing Windows 11

My drive arrangement is this -



Disc 0 contains most of my user partitions and I install to / boot from disc 1 - both are internal drives.

The issue I'm exeriencing is that the Windows boot drive C: is always bitlocked, as well as drives D: , E: , & F:

I've taken an image of disc 0 using Macrium Reflect, so I can erase these partitions as part of the clean install procedure.

However, how do I ensure disc C; is not bitlocked?

From Powershell

Thanks for the information.

However, is there no way to stop the partitions being encrypted in the first place?

It should not encrypt by default unless the system is configured to do so. I don't use a MS account, but it certainly is possible this setting/config transfers. If there is no bitlocker policy then disabling bitlocker on a volume should prevent re-encryption.

You may find this helpful. Both Device Encryption and Bitlocker on?? How to turn both off?? - Windows 10 Help Forums

Also I ran across this Dell article regarding updating your bios that you might want to be aware of if you leave bitlocker on