Windows 10: Is it possible to clone and access encrypted disk with Bitlocker using 3rd party tools such...

Is it possible to clone and access encrypted disk with Bitlocker using 3rd party tools such as Acronis disk imager ?

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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 ?

 

BitLocker and 3rd Party disk encryption

Hello,

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 Pro and was wondering if there may be any conflicts with third party disk encryption programs and BitLocker.

Basically, I currently have installed Jetico Best Crypt Volume Encryption but plan on letting the license renewal lapse and use Bitlocker for my security needs.

Also, I dont have TPM installed on my computer and was wondering if a 32 character password would be sufficient for security using BitLocker.

Thank you for your assistance.

Best Regards,

Frank

 

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

I would like to clone my ssd drive.

The drive is encrypted by Windows OS Bitlocker.

However, my assumption is to not use decryption before cloning.

I would like to avoid decryption and encryption operations.

Does exist any tool to clone ssd drives this way ?