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I recently got a new MSI laptop, came with Windows 11 - I immediately wiped the drive and installed Windows 10(Home edition), few days later installed a new BIO

I recently got a new MSI laptop, came with Windows 11 - I immediately wiped the drive and installed Windows 10(Home edition), few days later installed a new BIOS update and the laptop asked me for a bitlocker key......but I never encrypted the drive??? What's even weirder is that I logged into the Microsoft recovery thing and it had the recovery key for it????? So it does seem to be the default behaviour now.

ixwt 3y ago
This makes absolutely 0 sense. Bitlocker cannot be setup on Windows 10 Home edition.
- gambiting 3y ago
  Well I upgraded to Pro about two days later, so maybe the upgrade did it? But either way, there was absolutely zero indication that the drive is getting encrypted or that it's going to save my recovery key to my Microsoft account.
- wbkang 3y ago
  It's called "device encryption" which seems to do the same thing and they allow it for Windows 10 home. It's confusing.
  - temac 3y ago
    It's bitlocker but only activates if you log into a MS account in which case it: * silently activates * silently sends the key to MS. And this is the only way to have it on home.
    - gambiting 3y ago
      Ah. Which is probably what happened to me as I've signed into my MS account.
ysleepy 3y ago
Windows marks the device as bitlocker enables somewhere in the EFI partition or GPT disklabels. I needed to wipe the whole disk to have windows cease with bitlocker bootscreens.