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KevinRamirez
Mar 28, 2025Bronze Contributor
24H2 update - running out of ideas.
Thanks for any help and support. I was doing a clean install of Windows 11 on my laptop using a USB drive. During installation the available partitions were shown. My NVMe drive had the partition fo...
Advay-CMD
Mar 31, 2025Copper Contributor
It sounds like a unfortunate problem.
Do not panic.
As Mousefluff said bitlocker is on, by default, when you sign in your pc with your microsoft account.
If you are sure about a clean Install, these steps can be taken:
Press SHIFT + FN + F10 in windows setup installation for cmd.exe.
After type in this in cmd:
diskpart lis disk sel disk <disk number> cleanI think this should be enough to clean your disk...
If that didn't work then:
Go to your microsoft account on any accessible pc.
Login to your acount.
Go to https://account.microsoft.com/devices/recoverykey
Then see your recovery key...
Now, in the Windows PreInstallation Environment:
Press SHIFT + F10 for cmd.exe
Now type:
manage-bde -unlock C: -RecoveryPassword <Recovery-Key>This should work.
Hope this helps.