{"id":13751,"date":"2019-02-11T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T14:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=13751"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T14:17:16","slug":"suspend-or-resume-bitlocker-protection-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/suspend-or-resume-bitlocker-protection-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Methods to Suspend or Resume BitLocker Protection in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve enabled BitLocker<\/a> with TPM, performing a firmware (BIOS or UEFI) update will be interpreted as a boot attack and the computer will require you to enter BitLocker recovery key during boot. To get around this issue, you can suspend BitLocker protection before updating BIOS\/UEFI. When the update is complete you can resume BitLocker. That way, you won’t have to enter the recovery key at all. In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 ways to suspend or resume BitLocker protection in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Suspend or Resume BitLocker Protection from Control Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open the Control Panel<\/a> and set the View by<\/strong> option to Large icons<\/strong>, then click on BitLocker Drive Encryption<\/strong>.\n

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  2. Click the Suspend protection<\/strong> link next to your desired BitLocker encrypted drive.\n

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  3. Click Yes<\/strong> to confirm.\n

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  4. Now, your drive will now list its status as suspended with a exclamation point inside a yellow triangle over the drive logo. When you need to resume BitLocker protection, right-click on your drive in File Explorer and then select Resume BitLocker protection<\/strong>.\n

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    Method 2: Suspend or Resume BitLocker Protection from Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. To get started, open the Command Prompt as administrator<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. In order to suspend BitLocker protection, type the following command and press Enter. Replace C:<\/strong> with the drive letter of your BitLocker drive you want to suspend.\n

      manage-bde -protectors -disable C:<\/code><\/p>\n

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    3. When you need to resume BitLocker protection, execute the following command and you’re done.\n

      manage-bde -protectors -enable C:<\/code><\/p>\n

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      Method 3: Suspend or Resume BitLocker Protection from PowerShell<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Open Windows PowerShell as administrator<\/a>. Type the command below to suspend BitLocker protection for your desired drive.\n

        Suspend-BitLocker -MountPoint \"C:\"<\/code><\/p>\n

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      2. To resume BitLocker protection for your suspended drive, run the following command:\n

        Resume-BitLocker -MountPoint \"C:\"<\/code><\/p>\n

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        That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        If you’ve enabled BitLocker with TPM, performing a firmware (BIOS or UEFI) update will be interpreted as a boot attack and the computer will require you to enter BitLocker recovery key during boot. To get around this issue, you can suspend BitLocker protection before updating BIOS\/UEFI. When the update is complete you can resume BitLocker. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4130,4131],"class_list":["post-13751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-suspend-bitlocker","tag-suspend-bitlocker-for-bios-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13751"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13767,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751\/revisions\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}