Windows 10: NVME overprovisioning before or after Bitlocker FDE?

I have a 1TB NVME in an enclosure and want to BL the entire drive. Its it best to reserve space for overprovisioning before or after encrypting the drive? BTW am not a tech person but a notice with respect to NVME and BL. Thanks!

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Need to turn off Bitlocker to install Windows 10

Hi,

We suggest doing the following steps again to resolve the issue. To complete the procedure, make sure that you have the following information:

• You must be able to provide administrative credentials.
• The drive must be BitLocker-protected.

To suspend BitLocker Drive Encryption on an operating system drive, please follow the steps below:

• Click Start, click Control Panel, click
  System and Security, and then click BitLocker Drive Encryption.
• Click Suspend Protection for the operating system drive.
• A message is displayed, informing you that your data will not be protected while BitLocker is suspended and asking if you want to suspend BitLocker Drive Encryption.
  
• Click Yes to continue and suspend BitLocker on the drive.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Bitlocker

Hello Nandana,

To enable BitLocker on your computer, you follow the steps below:

• Sign in to your Windows account with an administrator access.
• Press the Windows key.
• Type and enter BitLocker.
• Click Turn on BitLocker.
• If the system is asking to sing in to administrator access, please do so.

For additional information about BitLocker, we suggest that you check the frequently ask question on this
link. The link provided applies to Windows 8.1 to higher version.

If you have other concerns, don't hesitate to reach us.

 

Enabling Bitlocker Full Disk Encryption on a drive w 2 partitions?

I'm not particularly sure of your question. I will say the disks I've encrypted using BitLocker have been whole disks (non partitioned) - that would be my 512gig NVMe OS drive (C), and a 2TB backup drive (I). All the drives in my system are only SSD/NVMe drives.

So if by Full Drive Encryption you mean the entire physical disk is using BitLocker yes, that would be true of both my C and I drive. If you're asking will the whole disk (FDE) be encrypted if it is partitioned using BitLocker, I'm not sure, but will reason no as BitLocker sees each partition as an individual drive as shown in the image below.....





As you see each drive has it's own encryption option. Doe it encrypt the whole (FDE) drive internally, I can't tell without trying it and actually testing the entire drive. Something I not will to go through. The disk housing the OS (C-drive) is NOT partitioned, neither is I-drive. Only F & G are created partitions from a 2TB drive.

Hope that clarifies.