What Happens To A Bitlocker Encrypted Partition When Your Os Partition Is Formatted
Users of BitLocker often have a number of different questions pertaining to the utility and how it and its encryption operates and behaves. One of the most common questions pertaining to BitLocker is what happens to a partition that is encrypted with BitLocker when a user’s primary partition (the one that houses their Operating System) is formatted, say in the event of a clean installation of Windows. Well, it is always recommended that you decrypt all BitLocker encrypted partitions before formatting your Operating System partition, but in the event that you do not do so and go ahead with the formatting of your OS partition, you will see that all other BitLocker encrypted partitions will be locked once you boot into your computer’s newly clean installed Operating System....