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nuance3
Level 4
11 years ago

Restoring SSR Image to a Hardware Encrypted BitLocker Drive

We are deploying HP8300 computers with Samsung self-encrypting Solid State Drives, using Windows 8.1.  BitLocker in Windows 8.1 encrypts the drive using the intrinsic hardware encryption of the drive...
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    nuance3
    11 years ago

    Thanks for the link.

    Deleting the journal (first tip in the document) did not work, it produced the same error.

    I didn't pursue the link out to Microsoft documentation.  That's too involved.  I'm going to wait for Symantec to sort this out.

    Because Win 8.1 installs (especially to SSDs) are very fast-- I find the following works.

    Install Win8.1 to a fresh disk-- let Windows create the 3 partitions (UEFI, recovery, OS)

    Then use Symantec restore disk to recover the OS partition only.

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sfh
11 years ago

sounds convoluted, as if you have both a bios ata hard drive password and bitlocker enabled.  or maybe it's me, but in any case bitlocker can be managed from a command prompt. (manage-bde)