How to Disable Bitlocker Encryption in Windows 11

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Published 2022-04-12
For Windows 11, enabling Secure Boot may make Bitlocker automatically turned on. If you no longer need BitLocker, you can easily turn it off. Doing so will not delete or modify the data in your drive.

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✅ 【About this Video】
⏰ 0:00 Start
⏰ 0:47 Way 1 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Control Panel
⏰ 1:11 Way 2 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Windows Services
⏰ 1:41 Way 3 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by “This PC”
⏰ 2:03 Way 4 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by System Configuration
⏰ 2:29 Way 5 -Disable BitLocker Encryption by Command Prompt
⏰ 3:21 Way 6 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Registry Editor
⏰ 3:47 Way 7 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by PowerShell
⏰ 4:05 Way 8 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Group Policy Editor

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✅ 【Details】
⏰ 0:47 Way 1 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Control Panel
1. Open the Control Panel from the Start menu.
2. Click System and Security - BitLocker Drive Encryption Button.
3. Click the Turn off BitLocker button.


⏰ 1:11 Way 2 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Windows Services
1. Press Win+R together to open the Run window, type services.msc and press the OK button.
2. Scroll and double-click the BitLocker Drive Encryption Service option.
3. To disable BitLocker Encryption, set the startup type to Disabled and press the Apply button.
4. Restart your computer to make changes take effect.


⏰ 1:41 Way 3 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by “This PC”
1. Open This PC on your computer.
2. Right-click the drive for which you want to disable BitLocker and select the Manage BitLocker option.
3. Click the Turn off BitLocker button.


⏰ 2:03 Way 4 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by System Configuration
1. Open the Run window, input msconfig, and hit the enter key.
2. Select the Services tab from the top bar, uncheck the BitLocker Drive Encryption Service and click the Apply button.
3. Restart your computer and the next time, the BitLocker Encryption Service will be disabled.


⏰ 2:29 Way 5 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Command Prompt
1. Open Command Prompt, and select Run as an administrator.
2. To unlock the BitLocker Encrypted Drive, type the command:
manage-bde -unlock Drive-Name: -RecoveryPassword Recovery-Code
Here please replace the Drive-Name with the Drive Letter of BitLocker Encrypted Drive and Recovery-Code with the actual recovery key allotted while encrypting the drive.
3. To disable BitLocker using CMD, type the command:
manage-bde -off Drive-Name:
Here also replace the Drive-Name with your drive letter.


⏰ 3:21 Way 6 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Registry Editor
1. Open the Registry Editor from the Start menu.
2. In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following path:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BitLocker.
3. Right-click the empty area on the right pane, add a new DWORD (32-bit) value, and name it as PreventDeviceEncryption.
4. Open the DWORD value and set the value data from 0 to 1 and click the OK button.


⏰ 3:47 Way 7 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by PowerShell
1. Run the PowerShell as an administrator from the Start menu.
2. To disable BitLocker using PowerShell, type the command:
Disable-BitLocker -MountPoint E:


⏰ 4:05 Way 8 - Disable BitLocker Encryption by Group Policy Editor
1. Navigate to the following path:
Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components - BitLocker Drive Encryption - Removable Data Drives
and double-click the Control use of BitLocker on removable drives option.
2. Select the Disabled option and click the OK button.

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✅ 【Tips】
If you disable BitLocker Encryption but you still want to encrypt your important files, you can try the secure backup software AOMEI Backupper Professional. It can directly backup files and encrypt them on USB. In this way, you only need to enter the password when restoring the encrypted files.

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All Comments (21)
  • @justinsmith6860
    Well done my friend, your video is the only one ive seen that was actually accurate and applies to all circumstances, good job
  • @kicunghartono1
    the most very clear video about how to disable bitlocker
  • @schadenfreude1061
    The command prompt or powershell method ran in Administrator privilege worked well. For context, my Windows 11 OS laptop doesn't have any options to disable BitLocker through user interface. So I ran the manage-bde -off C:, which C: is the only drive I have and that I want to disable. It worked great, but remember to run manage-bde -status to check if the Percentage Encrypted: is at 0% which means it has finished decrypting because Command Line doesn't show decryption progress and will happily accept another command input
  • @bloosm339
    Same thing 1tb HD is not opening on my laptop. An error occurred applying attributes to the file: The specified file could not be decrypted.
  • @sirgrundel
    I dont see BitLocker Drive Encryption in the System and Security section, does that mean i dont have it ? i wanna update my bios & it was telling me to disable BitLocker before hand.
  • @tonosonogono
    Thanks this was very helpful. Way nr.1 didn't work (showed error message) but way nr.2 worked !
  • @brownladKR
    how to unlock a bitlocked external drive not showing with letter as disk management failed to initialize the disk. please help
  • @bismaynandy9453
    I am using lenovo laptop with window 11. With latest update. Kindly guide me how to disable bitlocker
  • @encarnacionian
    Way 7 working thanks, how to enable again what command: ?
  • @benoit2234
    Important note: make sure you don't stop bitlocker service in way 3 as this prevents bitlocker from updating it status. This is important while doing a fresh install in your primary drive to get a non encrypted tag
  • @user-iv1lj7xo2r
    The only method that worked for me was the fifth but in one of my disk I get the following message: ERROR: This volume stores external key(s) that can automatically unlock other volumes. Before you can decrypt this volume, you must remove such keys. How do I solve this?
  • @NF_Crew49
    Bitlocker doesn't even show up in system and security but it's still blocking me from entering safe mode on my pc Edit second method let me see it I'm gunna try and restart now