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.

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