Turning off BitLocker

I want to clone my drive to another disk so I can start debugging my Laptop. I have a suspicion that the Video Hardware is having issues, but it could simply be a software corruption on Windows 10 that caused the headaches.

I noticed this video glitch while designing a 6 layer PCB in Altium 23.

I was in the middle layout and suddenly I was unable to move the PCB around the window without it going black and losing the necessary details. This became unmanageable, and I was traveling that weekend to visit family and work remote, so I purchased a new laptop to finish the job.

This meant I had to travel with 2 laptops, because I can never get my laptops setup correctly in a couple days.

Now that I’ve shipped the product to the customer, I have time to look into this. Fortunately, I have a couple weeks left in the manufacturers warranty, so I’m hoping to figure out the issue and have them fix this and my USB C charging issue.

In order to debug this I will first clone my existing 512GB SSD to a 2TB SSD I have for another project. Then I’ll make sure that I can boot the 2TB SSD and have the original Windows 11 experience.

In order to clone this I will turn off BitLocker so I can easily use the Orico M.2 NVME SSD Clone Duplicator to clone this.

I prefer learning windows using the command line so I don’t have to search through all the Windows menus when they change in the future so here we go.

Command Line – turning off BitLocker

Open a command line in Administrator mode

Then type in:

manage-bde -off c:

To check the status of the decryption type the following:

manage-bde -status

Next steps

Now I’ll continually check the status until it is done… because it takes a while.

Once this is done, I’ll start the debug process.