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ATI 2021 from retail, both bitlocker and core isolation standard in Windows 11 are preventing it from working?

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purchased a new laptop preinstalled with Windows 11.  Also needed some additional licenses for ATI and bought a 5-license bundle from a retailer to avoid having to sign up for a yearly subscription commitment. 

Install one license on this new laptop, and the install errored saying the driver was incompatible and I'd have to turn Core Isolation off.  This is a bummer, since Windows 11 was built with it on by default, for security, then after doing that, while running the first backup job from ATI 2021 it failed saying it could not backup a bitlocker locked drive, which, yes, again is default out of the box security for Windows 11 (this makes perfect sense in how we all know all data in previous unbitlocked drives since time immemorial were as insecure as a read/write usb drive)

Let me get this straight, I've got tell my technical support clients, that I've got to turn off two amazing security features that come active as a standard part of Windows 11 to get Acronis True Image to work?  And that ATI only worked on their old systems because they were so insecure?

lol, what?

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David, the core isolation issue has been well known in the forums for some time and has not yet been fixed by Acronis in even the latest ACPHO version.

Regarding BitLocker encryption, this does not need to be removed, only unlocked in order for Acronis to work with such protected drives.

When BitLocker encryption is turned on for the Windows OS drive, then it is normally unlocked automatically when the user has signed in and therefore is seen as being unlocked when Acronis run backups. 

If you have any locked BitLocker protected drives, then Acronis cannot back these up or write to them if being used for storage unless they are unlocked, which is expected behaviour for any locked / encrypted drive!  If Acronis were to backup an encrypted drive, then the backup image would be done using Sector-by-Sector method and result in a backup file of the same size as the physical drive itself.