I enabled BitLocker recently on both my C: and D: drives, both internal. D is my data drive, with only some very large apps on it, so it shouldn’t be needed for the system to work. I have my two recovery keys, so the data isn’t at stake.
Originally, I enabled autounlock on D:, and the system was able to boot, with the drive unlocked.
But today, I tried to disable autounlock on D, and when I tried to reboot, Windows wouldn’t start. The automatic recovery starts, and I end up on the recovery page, where I can open cmd or restart in safe mode.
From there, I tried to enable autounlock with
manage-bde -autounlock -enable D:
but that obviously didn’t work as it’s not the "right" system that ran the command.Booting in safe mode didn’t work either, it just brought me back to the recovery options page.
Then, I booted in HBCDPE, and from there I’m able to unlock my two drives with their recovery key, but I can’t edit their BitLocker settings, and I’m not sure if I can edit the registry (regedit opens the PE’s registry, not the one on C).
Any ideas on how to get back to a bootable state?
UPDATE : What I tried after posting, none of it worked :
physically removing my D drive and rebooting
Running the automatic system repair tool, it failed and the log file says nothing
Running sfc and dism on my C drive. Both succeeded without errors, but the system still doesn’t boot