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Imaging an encrypted drive

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I am installing a larger SSD in my computer. I was going to use Samsung’s data migration software, but it asks that I turn off Bitlocker to copy the drive.

Will True Image 2021 give me a good usable image without having to turn Bitlocker off?

 

 

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Paul, welcome to these public User Forums.

If you make a backup image of the encrypted drive from ATI 2021 installed in Windows, then the drive will be seen as being unlocked and the backup image will not be encrypted by BitLocker, which would then allow you to restore that image to a new SSD.
Note: after doing the restore you would need to re-enable BitLocker on the new SSD.

Thank you, Steve; that is what I needed!

 I’ll just make the image, swap SSDs, reboot, and press on as normal.

Paul

The target drive for any restore will be wiped as the first operation then any partitions recreated as per the backup image contents, so formatting the SSD makes no difference.

Note: if the new SSD is not initialised as either MBR or GPT then it may not show in the list of targets to restore to, in which case click on Tools > Add new disk to initialise it.  This should use the same method as the original drive.

Steve Smith wrote:

The target drive for any restore will be wiped as the first operation then any partitions recreated as per the backup image contents, so formatting the SSD makes no difference.

Note: if the new SSD is not initialised as either MBR or GPT then it may not show in the list of targets to restore to, in which case click on Tools > Add new disk to initialise it.  This should use the same method as the original drive.

 

Thanks again, Steve. I’ll get started now. 😀