How to Remove Bitlocker and Repair Boot Manager

If Bitlocker fails to encrypt Drive, or you want Bitlocker removed, this walkthrough shows how to restore boot for active primary partition, and remove Bitlocker created partition.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Vista Installation Disk

1. First you will need the vista installation disk so you will be able to repair your boot manager.
   In the vista disk managment tool mark C: as active(or whatever is the default partition)
   start>right click Computer>click Manage>click Disk Management>right click select Drive (C), and click "mark partition as active"

2. Restart your computer.
   and hit any key at prompt to boot from O/S disk

3. When the language selection screen comes up click next.
   Click the repair link.
   (Note-if you have a SATA drive you will have to load driver)

4. Select the c: partition.
   Click next.
   Click repair boot manager.
   When it has finished restart your computer.
   (Note-This repair step for unknown reason may have to be repeated twice)

5. In the vista disk manager convert the 1.5 gb partition into unallocated space.
   Extend C: so that it uses all the unallocated space.
   Everything should be back to normal

Tips & Warnings

• Note- you may notice the following startup program after removal of Bitlocker fveNotify.exe This registry entry can be removed by editing the registry or removing the check in system configuration "startup" start>type "msconfig" in search without quotations> startup start>type "regedit" in search without quotations> and navigate to the following: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete fveNotify.exe entry.
• Perform a backup prior prior to perfoming removal and boot manager repair.

[Diablo2]

on 6/5/2009 Very informative article, 5 stars.