With Win 11 in mind I have reinstalled Win 10 on my Lenovo E490. I set up secure boot, UEFI etc. then during the install deleted all the existing partition and let it loose. I've even signed on with my MSFT account and
set up a PIN (which I immediately forgot and had to reset).
I then tried to shrink the main partition so I could add a "D" drive and I can't, apparently bitlocker is et up (not by me, must have been the
install program).
I have tried to turn it off but no success, as a bonus I couldn't log on
to my main machine using remote desktop for some unknown reason, even if I tell it to use user name and password.
None of the alleged ways of removing bitlocker work, and I have no idea
what the password might be because I didn't set it up. Any way to turn it
off or do I go back to MBR and non secure boot?
Why can't you shrink with Bitlocker enabled? >https://marc-wouts.medium.com/how-to-resize-bitlocker-and-luks-encrypted-partitions-b8ee70697edb
(I haven't tried this)
The key might be stored in the TPM, meaning you don't need a password.
If you're reinstalling, you could just partition the drive during >installation
and install to a smaller partition. I think Bitlocker should then keep its >paws off the rest of the drive.
I thought I'd try an in place upgrade to Win10 on my remaining Win 8.1
PC. It failed, no reason given and logs aren't Jeff readable.
One suggestion was a service running that interfered with the upgrade so
I disabled all non MSFT services and am trying again.
It is downloading Win 10 again, is there not a way to get it to continue where it left off or at least use what it has already downloaded?
On 31/07/2022 10:30, Jeff Gaines wrote:
I thought I'd try an in place upgrade to Win10 on my remaining Win 8.1
PC. It failed, no reason given and logs aren't Jeff readable.
One suggestion was a service running that interfered with the upgrade so
I disabled all non MSFT services and am trying again.
It is downloading Win 10 again, is there not a way to get it to continue >>where it left off or at least use what it has already downloaded?
My advice would be to use the "Media Creation Tool" and make yourself a >bootable CD/DVD or USB stick, then do a virgin install.
The trivial bits and pieces which you will miss out on by not "activating" >Windows are hardly worth bothering about.
The trivial bits and pieces which you will miss out on by not "activating" >>Windows are hardly worth bothering about.
Yes, that's my preference too - and it's just failed a second time so I
will do that! I have a digital licence for Win 10 so no activation issues.
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