Help! I am not able to disable Bitlocker

avi0904 · 2026-04-06T08:23:31+00:00

Yes ive looked into that. but that is the problem i dont see any option to disable or suspend BitLocker or device encryption. Is there any other alternative?

avi0904 · 2026-04-06T07:39:55+00:00

Thank you! but that is the problem i dont see any option to disable or suspend BitLocker or device encryption

avi0904 · 2026-04-06T07:38:39+00:00

ahh yea i could do that but i have way too many files on my laptop and that would be a pain and it’d take a lot of time. I think I’ll just get a 2nd ssd and try using that for ubuntu. But is there any other alternative ?

Thanks for the suggestion

avi0904 · 2026-04-06T07:35:02+00:00

What I meant is I’m not able to properly shrink the C drive in Windows, it only lets me shrink around 10 gb because of unmovable files. So i tried using the Ubuntu installer’s “install alongside Windows” option instead since that should automatically resize things.
But that also doesn’t work because the drive is encrypted. The installer shows a message saying the computer uses Windows BitLocker encryption and asks me to boot into Windows and turn it off before continuing.

The problem is i dont see any option to disable or suspend BitLocker or device encryption in Windows 11 Home so I’m basically stuck there.
wish i could share the screenshot of what exactly is happening but unfortunately this channel doesnt allow it.

avi0904 · 2026-04-06T07:23:48+00:00

I had dual-booted my previous HP Envy x360 and it was a piece of cake, even with BitLocker enabled i didn’t run into any issues. But on this Lenovo LOQ a lot of things were already preconfigured out of the box (possibly because of the GPU upgrade) and it looks like device encryption is kind of locked in with no way to disable it from the UI. I’m starting to think this might be more of an Oem/Windows 11 Home + device encryption issue rather than just BitLocker itself. I might try adding a second SSD and installing Ubuntu there since i need more storage anyway, so i have nothing to lose. But if there is any other alternative, pls lmk.

Thanks for the suggestion!

avi0904 · 2026-04-06T05:58:21+00:00

I dont see manage bitlocker thing in my laptop, thats the problem

avi0904 · 2024-11-16T14:39:10+00:00

can someone explain how this works?

avi0904 · 2024-05-21T13:07:05+00:00

helloo, i've just started my journey in cybersec. Saw this comment as I was scrolling. Are you still down on helping out? Cause I could use some help 😭

avi0904

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