

Changing the master key is a slow and difficult operation as it requires decrypting and re-encrypting the whole drive.

ID: Įxplanation: like several other disk encryption solutions, Bitlocker has a master key that is actually used to encrypt the data on a drive. So, now when I run the above command I get the following: BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 1Ĭopyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. But when I omit -RecoveryKey F:, I'm unable to run the following after drive encryption without getting an error: I'm not sure what the F: does it seems to do nothing.

So I figured out how to get it encrypted via command line by doing this: First, I can't do anything through the bitlocker UI in Win10 I have to do things through the manage-bde command line. I have an internal hard drive- my G drive-(Win10) that behaves differently from all my other drives in regards to bitlocker (both internal and portable USB drives).
