For questions about disabling BbitLocker in order to install Ubuntu or use a BitLocker encrypted drive in Ubuntu. BitLocker is the Windows encryption technology that protects your data from unauthorized access by encrypting your drive and requiring one or more factors of authentication before it will unlock it.
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Ubuntu installation over Bitlocker
Hello: I am attempting to install the current version of Ubuntu on a Surface laptop that has windows with Bitlocker. I am not trying to run both OS and I wish to completely erase the disk. However, when I select that in the install sequence, I am…
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Problem with installing and BitLocker
I have a new HP Envy x360 laptop that I want to put Ubuntu on. When I got through the installation, I told it to get rid of Windows, but the next instruction says to disable BitLocker. It should not be saying that. I tried to go back to do the…
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What is the BitLocker passphrase without a Microsoft account?
I am dual booting Windows 11 with Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. When I set up Windows I used the OOBE\BYPASSNRO method to skip creating a Microsoft account. Now I want to access the encrypted partition in Ubuntu (the one shown in Other Locations in Nautilus)…
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I lost my ubuntu after windows update automatically turned on bitlocker in dual boot
I have installed ubuntu along with windows after disabling BitLocker since BitLocker encryption didn't allow ubuntu installation. But after a windows update it automatically turned on the BitLocker and I have lost my ubuntu and the partition used…
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Ubuntu won't detect the hard drive in my laptop and stalls (UBUNTU SPECIFIC BIOS SETTINGS?)
I want to understand what are the specific BIOS settings required for Ubuntu to run correctly? Modern Windows (Windows 11) has many new "security features in the BIOS" that make it difficult or even impossible to install.
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AMD Ryzen 7…
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Internal hard drive disappeared while install Ubuntu
A colleague of mine regretted updating her laptop from Win10 to Win11, so we installed Ubuntu on it this morning. Or at least, we tried to.
She created a bootable USB key and special restarted Windows into booting that. We go through the process of…
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BitLocker requires Key after aborting UBUNTU installation
I am trying to install Ubuntu on a friend's new laptop, alongside with the pre-installed Windows. As BitLocker was active on Windows, we aborted the installation routine in order to go back to Windows and deactivate BitLocker. But we cannot go…
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Retrieve Bitlocker key from within Ubuntu
I mistakenly deleted the Windows partition key from the Microsoft account, and Secure Boot asks for it after an OS update (as expected); but because of the dual-boot setup, I can normally access Ubuntu, which resides in the very same encrypted SSD;…
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Trying to understand two methods of mounting a bitlocker encrypted partition
I have an external HDD with two partitions on it. There's the primary partition and an additional partition I created called "Data" which is bitlocker encrypted (I created the Data partition on a Windows PC).
I've found two different ways of…
