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<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1063657" data-attributes="member: 96560">Windows 11 Home turns ON drive encryption Without Notifying You. That means, that if BitLocker detects any other OS touching the drive, it will ask for the Recovery Key upon reboot&nbsp; - which you won&#039;t have. You can go online to your MS Account to retrieve it. And I advise you to do so Before anything happens. Because you may only have 1 laptop.The bad thing about it is - it encrypted the newly made partition that holds my friend&#039;s drive image. And the Macrium Rescue Media cannot read that partition anymore. MS does this encrypting without warning. And in my friend&#039;s&nbsp; case,&nbsp; he is screwed, because he didn&#039;t have the drive image stored in duplicate to a removable drive or USB key.The blue screen where BitLocker asks for the Recovery Key does have the address of the web site where you can retrieve your key, but it is an unnecessary hoop that you have to go thru. The encryption of the backup partition was uncalled for and should have never happened without telling the user about the Recovery Key and giving the user a chance to save it or print it like in Windows Pro.Know also that BitLocker encryption offers no protection if your laptop is hacked or invaded by malware. Windows decrypts the contents of the drive for the intruder when you sign in to Windows just like when you are using the machine normally.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1063657, member: 96560"] Windows 11 Home turns ON drive encryption Without Notifying You. That means, that if BitLocker detects any other OS touching the drive, it will ask for the Recovery Key upon reboot - which you won't have. You can go online to your MS Account to retrieve it. And I advise you to do so Before anything happens. Because you may only have 1 laptop. The bad thing about it is - it encrypted the newly made partition that holds my friend's drive image. And the Macrium Rescue Media cannot read that partition anymore. MS does this encrypting without warning. And in my friend's case, he is screwed, because he didn't have the drive image stored in duplicate to a removable drive or USB key. The blue screen where BitLocker asks for the Recovery Key does have the address of the web site where you can retrieve your key, but it is an unnecessary hoop that you have to go thru. The encryption of the backup partition was uncalled for and should have never happened without telling the user about the Recovery Key and giving the user a chance to save it or print it like in Windows Pro. Know also that BitLocker encryption offers no protection if your laptop is hacked or invaded by malware. Windows decrypts the contents of the drive for the intruder when you sign in to Windows just like when you are using the machine normally. [/QUOTE]

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