The recovery usually deletes all partitions which will include the Bitlocked one so you still wouldn't get the previously stored informationĢnd. The recovery bit pressing F12 referred only to having the old disk in place - sorry should have made that clearer. I had this exact scenario a couple of weeks ago and the new drive worked fine, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.Ģnd. If you fit a new drive and install Windows, bitlocker is not enabled by default on the new installation. Bitlocker (as far as I'm aware) is only enabled for info protection on the specific hard drive - not the whole machine.
