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Reformat PC?
Hello!
I have a question. I have windows 11 cd that I bought and usually when I reformat my pc by inserting the cd and there will be a page showing all my hard drive and solid state drive and I reformat them one by one and they will be unallocated. This time when I inserted the Windows 11 cd got the blue screen saying need the key Bitlocker and after few restarts I got the option to install the windows but the page showed all my hard drives and solid state were automatically reformatted. Is that something normal? Because I never seen it before which they are automatically reformatted thanks.
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The short answer is: No, this is not the "normal" behavior of a standard, clean Windows installation that you initiate yourself. What you experienced is a strong indicator that your drives were encrypted with BitLocker, and the process you went through triggered a recovery scenario that wiped them.
