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Ziaa
Sep 20, 2025Copper Contributor
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 refo...
JasperMonroe
Sep 24, 2025Iron Contributor
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.
Ziaa
Sep 25, 2025Copper Contributor
Thanks for the reply. Again I reformatted my pc and I was asked again for the bitlocker I did find my key and again same thing happened. All my hard drives were automatically reformatted and I believe this happened due when I played the beta of Battlefield 6 were the game is asking to enable the TPM 2.0 and Windows things something strange happened in the security and also I updated the bios firmware.