BitLocker Disable/Suspend
Disables or Suspends BitLocker Drive Encryption for a specified volume.
Suspend-BitLocker
- There may be multiple reason as to why BitLocker may need to be disabled or paused.
- BIOS or other firmware updates
- changing system board
- moving hard drive from one system to another
- temporary suspension can be accomplished by running the following command:
suspend-BitLocker -mountpoint "Drive:"- default is it allows for a single reboot, more reboots may be specified by adding the -rebootcount switch.
suspend-BitLocker -mountpoint "Drive:" -rebootcount xx
Disable-BitLocker
Disables BitLocker Drive Encryption for a specified volume.