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Out Of Bubblegum 11 月 14 日上午 8:03

Possible to move a Win 11 boot disk to another PC?

Background: When I built my newest PC, I made a clone of the Win10 boot disk from my previous PC. I went from Intel and Nvidia to all AMD. The boot drive worked. Windows saw new hardware and downloaded new drivers and everything worked well. All my games and programs ran fine. I was impressed. Then I did make a fresh install of Win10 onto a blank drive.

I am trying the same experiment with Win11. I installed Win11 to a blank drive. It is a WD drive so I used the WD Acronis to clone that drive to another one. I selected clone for use in another PC. But when I try to boot from that disk (on another PC or on this PC) I get a message to attach a USB drive with a Bitlocker key. Must be something with the secure boot that Win11 has.

Is it possible to move a Win11 boot drive to a new PC at all?

The instructions I see about making a USB Bitlocker key look like they will encrypt my drive first. I don't want that. Can I make the USB Bitlocker key the boot is asking for?

I did not try cloning the drive with the option to use on this PC yet. I am not sure that will work with Win11 but I will try later.

Anyone know WTF I am talking about? :)

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引用自 smallcat:

to do what you intend , first must disable Bitlocker and then clone the SSD

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smallcat 11 月 14 日上午 8:16

to do what you intend , first must disable Bitlocker and then clone the SSD

Out Of Bubblegum 11 月 14 日上午 8:23

引用自 smallcat：
to do what you intend , first must disable Bitlocker and then clone the SSD

Ah. That makes sense. I will try that. Thanks :)

Is there a way to say to not use Bitlocker when installing Win11?

smallcat 11 月 14 日上午 8:25

in your case ,you must disable it in the Win 11 options

HeyYou 11 月 14 日上午 9:49

Yep, win 11 pro comes with bitlocker on by default. Home theoretically doesn't have bitlocker.... but, I have seen some encrypted drives with 11 home.... Turn if it, and when the drive is finished decrypting, all the bitlocker options disappear..... That was kinda strange...

Out Of Bubblegum 11 月 14 日上午 10:33

YES! That worked. But my log-in pin is now invalid on that other PC. I have to go through some steps to set up a new pin.

The big win is that it does boot onto an old PC that is not Win11 compliant. Which is what I want. I hope it will fully boot and be usable.