Format Factory Pre Activated - No Serial Need It - Use It Like P Download Pc

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Jul 11, 2024, 8:27:05 PM7/11/24

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I have a HD protected by Bitlocker. Login, password and restorekey are unknown and all I want to do is wipe the whole drive. When I try to boot from a windows installation cd I have no access to the drive since it asks for the restore key I don't have.

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If that doesn't help, there is still the possibility to wipe the complete disk - after overwriting the first few megabytes the HDD will be recognized as fresh new HDD by Windows.You can do that for example using DBAN but don't forget to disconnect all the other HDDs before using it - otherwise you may delete the wrong HDD and lose all your data.

Press SHIFT-F10 or hit 'repair' in from the Windows installation to open up the command line, then execute the diskpart command and delete the partition, e.g.: list disk, select disk 0 or any other identifying the correct disk, list partition, select partition 1, or the encrypted one , in case there are multiple partitions, then delete partition override.

I just install Windows and when it comes to the time where setup asks you where you want to install Windows, I use "advanced options" to delete all partitions. Then let setup create a new partition for you and presto, you're done.

Did this numerous times on a bunch of notebooks we aquired for recycling (I work at a thrift store of some sort), which were all encrypted with Bitlocker. It must have been at least 100 notebooks from a office centre that went belly-up, no problems what-so-ever.

You dont absolutely need DBAN, GParted or another third party tool. Just Bootup WindowsPE (e.g. with a windows installation media on USB Stick or DVD) and use the windows format command to format the drive. When you have a Bitlocker encrypted drive, you just need to securely delete its encryption keys. For this its enough to format the drive.

I have an SSD that was locked by BitLocker. Thankfully I did not need to get at the data. I just wanted to reuse the drive. At first I thought I would need to use Linux as mentioned by another user, but thankfully I did not.

At first, it did not show up in my drive list. Luckily I got distracted with something else and left it plugged in. After about five minutes, it popped up on my list, and an additional pop up window came up asking for the BitLocker key.

For those wiping a disk or memory card with Linux, I can confirm that wiping the first 4 MB and creating a new fat32 filesystem worked fine for me for an SD card used in a Windows phone. (The SD card was no longer available after a device reset.) No need to delete partitions. (Not sure whether the phone would even accept an SD card without partition.)

I think that the method that I used was simpler than most of these suggestions. I just did this on a number of our company's laptops. We are closing and will be turning all of our assets, including the computers, over to the new tenants. So we needed a way to wipe all of the hard drives and I didn't really want to enter a BitLocker key for each of the units.

Using DISKPART to remove all partitions worked for me.If bitlocker is mandatory then first fully update windows and drivers and bios before enabling bitlocker. Otherwise you will need to do all the tedious stuff like pausing protection on/off after each reboot update.

I inherited a fully loaded Lenovo laptop that had Win8 that the local IT shop was hired to upgrade to Win10 The PC had bitlocker on and they had the key but somehow blew the install and told the customer it was trashed.

The fix was simple - boot to a Win10 bootable USB (or DVD if you have that option) When you get to the 'where to install' screen, delete all of the partitions - that wipes out the bitlocker info and Win10 installs without a hitch.

For an hour of my time and $25 for a new charger I got an i7 8gb touchscreen convertible that brand new was easily $1000 plus - not too shabby! The interesting thing was that Windows was automatically activated.

The Win10 files can be downloaded from Microsoft for free and as long as you have a Win7 or 8 license it will activate. Just go to -us/software-download/windows10 select create media to download the installation tool. The instructions for creating bootable USB or DVD media are on that page.