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Written by Will Dormann on 2025-01-19 at 23:33

In poking around at what the difference might be between Windows 11 "Device Encryption" and "BitLocker Drive Encryption", I had a VM that would never ever finish enabling Device Encryption. No amount of reboots or idle time would let it complete.

However, ONLY upon attempting to manually add a TPM key protector did Windows tell me that it cannot proceed because there's bootable media (CD or DVD) detected, and that I must eject the media to proceed.

I get it that users can get overwhelmed with excessive detail in errors, but maybe, just MAYBE Windows could be a little more helpful than "Have you tried rebooting?" if it knows EXACTLY what the problem is?

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Written by Richard "mtfnpy" Harman on 2025-01-19 at 23:51

@wdormann I can't tell you how many times I've run into exactly this when installing a VM.

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