Bitlocker resume protection wizard initialization has failed
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Hello everyone! Long time no talk to. I'm in a pickle, sort of. My colleague installed a new HD in a Dell Latitude 6420 and now the bitlocker is not able to resume protection. To rectify the issue, I went into the bios, activated the TPM and restarted. When that didn't work, I went back into the bios, cleared TPM to start fresh, restart...no go. I'm at a stand still. May I call on the Brain Power that be to help this humble man.
In advance, thank you so much,
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Chris is back!
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@scottalanmiller
Hey my Big brotha. Sorry for being away so long. I missed all of you guys. I'm not just saying that either. -
Wow! 35 looks thus far and no feed back. Very unusual.
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Oh man I hope someone has some help for you soon!
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I really would like to help... just have not used bitlocker.
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Sorry, I don't have any experience with Bitlocker.
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Is it asking for a recovery key?
In my experience with Bitlocker, if ANYTHING changes, it invalidates the key, and it will ask for your recovery key, which is a 30+ character code to type in.
I found that out the hard way once by simply updating the BIOS of the server. Rebooted to a recovery screen.
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Aight Fam (short for family), this is what I've discovered that seems to be working thus far.
- Go into the bios to see if TPM is activated or deactivated. If deactivated, click activated, apply, exit and restart computer.
- Log in as admin, type in search bar "tpm.msc and select.
- On the far righthand side under, "Actions", see if TPM is initialized. If not, click on initialize to initialize it.
- Once you finished initializing it, the computer will ask to restart.
- After logging in, go to Control Panel, Bitlocker
- If the Bitlocker is turned off, turn it on and allow it to do it's work in the background
Now mind you I just discovered that the Bitlocker can be on, but a server will give a notification stating otherwise due to the Bitlocker on the computer isn't properly communicating with the server.
To check to see if this is the case, Go into the property of the computer via AD. Under the Bitlocker tab, if you don't see any pwd key or any information pertaining to Bitlocker that's the issue. Try to reset, if not, clear.
If you have to go beyond this point, it's beyond me. Thus far all that I mentioned above has worked for me. G'luck! -
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@BRRABill
Thank you for your concern. The cool thing about Bitlocker, the Pwd recovery key is listed in the AD under the Bitlocker tab. -
@MrWright4hire said:
@BRRABill
Thank you for your concern. The cool thing about Bitlocker, the Pwd recovery key is listed in the AD under the Bitlocker tab.Unless it is a standalone system like many of mine.
AD is the much better option.
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@BRRABill said:
@MrWright4hire said:
@BRRABill
Thank you for your concern. The cool thing about Bitlocker, the Pwd recovery key is listed in the AD under the Bitlocker tab.Unless it is a standalone system like many of mine.
AD is the much better option.
And only if you have AD manage this
I tried to get my boss to have us upgrade everyone to Windows 10, he said nope, not until at least a year has passed... So instead we're using a separate encryption software for our needs.
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@DustinB3403 one more aspect of the cost of not upgrading. Often the costs of staying back are hidding in the little things liek this.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@BRRABill said:
@MrWright4hire said:
@BRRABill
Thank you for your concern. The cool thing about Bitlocker, the Pwd recovery key is listed in the AD under the Bitlocker tab.Unless it is a standalone system like many of mine.
AD is the much better option.
And only if you have AD manage this
I tried to get my boss to have us upgrade everyone to Windows 10, he said nope, not until at least a year has passed... So instead we're using a separate encryption software for our needs.
HUH? Is bitlocker now included with Windows 10 Pro? I thought it was still limited to the Enterprise OS only?
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@Dashrender said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@BRRABill said:
@MrWright4hire said:
@BRRABill
Thank you for your concern. The cool thing about Bitlocker, the Pwd recovery key is listed in the AD under the Bitlocker tab.Unless it is a standalone system like many of mine.
AD is the much better option.
And only if you have AD manage this
I tried to get my boss to have us upgrade everyone to Windows 10, he said nope, not until at least a year has passed... So instead we're using a separate encryption software for our needs.
HUH? Is bitlocker now included with Windows 10 Pro? I thought it was still limited to the Enterprise OS only?
It is included.
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@DustinB3403
I'm not sure about Windows OS 10, but I'm dealing with an Enterprise network. -
@MrWright4hire I have Windows 10 Pro at home, and I have bitlocker.
No need to question me
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@DustinB3403 said:
@MrWright4hire I have Windows 10 Pro at home, and I have bitlocker.
No need to question me
Just because?