Windows 10: BitLocker Issues After Cloning Drive

Hello, I recently cloned a drive with BitLocker enabled, and I'm facing challenges using BitLocker on the new SSD. I successfully disabled and decrypted the Bitlocker from old SSD using PowerShell in admin mode. Also, when I'm trying to open microsoft store I'm getting an error "This is not an upgrade from Windows". Could you please assit me in enabling BitLocker on the new SSD and resolving an associated issues?

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Clone Bitlocker enable drive to SSD

Keitaro

My name is Andre Da Costa; an Independent Consultant, Windows Insider MVP and Windows & Devices for IT MVP. I'm here to help you with your problem.

Heed the advice of the software, you must disable BitLocker before cloning. This is highly recommend if you ever want to get access to the drive.

There is nothing wrong with having to re-enable it after restoring the clone.

Step 1: disable BitLocker.

Step 2: clone drive

Step 3: restore the cloned image to the new drive.

Step 4: Re-Enable BitLocker.

 

BitLocker Issues After Cloning Drive

Hello Microsoft Team,

I recently cloned a drive with BitLocker enabled and have encountered challenges when attempting to enable BitLocker on the new SSD. I successfully disabled and decrypted BitLocker on the old SSD using PowerShell in admin mode after the cloning process. However, I'm now facing issues with the new SSD. Additionally, when trying to open the Microsoft Store, I receive an error stating, "This is not an upgrade from Windows."

Could you please assist me in enabling BitLocker on the new SSD and resolving the associated Microsoft Store issues? Your guidance on the appropriate steps to address these issues would be greatly appreciated.

 

Is it any possibility to clone BitLocker Encrypted Drive with Windows OS ?

Hi Jaspreet Singh

Let me explain why I would like to remove decryption and reencryption from cloning process. The idea is to use cloning process to prepare 1:1 backup of my master OS drive. It means that cloning process will be repeated as often as possible for the same source drive, so the time of whole cloning process is very important to me.

You say "it is highly recommended", from technical point of view it suggests that cloning process does not need decryption/reencryption. Your recommendation is to do 2 steps more because "sth can go wrong". It is not my case because I still have the source disk and can repeat cloning process and check cloned drive.

The question about tool like AOMEI backup is: the tool needs my bitlocker pin to perform decryption, copy and encryption operations on the fly ? (I do not need tools working this way) If no, does it mean that such tools make "simple" copy of encrypted sectors and that's all ? My experience is different, simple copy of encrypted drive does not work. So some more additional steps are needed, those steps are big ones (decryption and reencryption) or maybe some smaller steps ...

So, I must have or it is nice to have decryption and reencryption in cloning process ?

Do You know how exactly cloning encrypted drive works on AOMEI backup ?