Bitlocker results in Automatic recovery requiring manual decryption in WinRE

Bitlocker is totally broken on my framework 13 (AMD Ryzen 7640u) Once I enable it I’m no longer able to reboot the system as it goes into automatic recovery requiring me to decrypt the drive manually using WinRE and manage-bde, the system works fine once it’s decrypted but trying to encrypt it doesn’t work. I’ve recorded a video of the behaviour since that’s easier than explaining

  • Which OS (Operating System)?

Windows 11

  • Which release of your OS (Operating System / Windows 10, 11)? (if you are having a Linux related issue, please create your thread under the Linux subcategory)

24H2

  • Which Framework laptop (11th, 12th or 13th generation Framework laptop, Chromebook or Framework Laptop 16) are you asking for support with?

AMD Ryzen 7640u

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Have you tried disabling bitlocker entirely? With all the trouble it presents, I am not sure just having an encrypted store on an SSD would be a better way to go. Years ago I had the PGP tools for Windows and the encrypted volume it created just worked all the time.

Some of this is not helping that bitlocker is turned on by default the last few times I have fresh installed Windows 11.

Let us know how it turns out for you @Sarah_F.

If you go to bitlocker and suspend protection without actually turning off bitlocker does it boot normally? Did you do the reboot bitlocker check before encrypting the drive?

How does that in any definition of the word solve my problem, if I wanted to play around with PGP and only encrypt a small portion of my files I would do that.

I’m specifically wanting to use bitlocker, which is why I made a post asking for help with bitlocker and not PGP or file encryption.

I ended up installing windows 11 LTSC and it fixed the issue, my guess is it’s a bug with the latest version of Windows 11 education since I was using a key from uni before.