Bitlocker and Windows 10

[jedi]

Get the a Windows ISO from Microsoft

Download Windows 10

www.microsoft.com

Boot from it and it will walk you through the process of clearing the drive and re-installing Windows. Bonus, it will be completely clear of any Lenovo pre-installed things. You'll have to get any missing drivers from Lenovo support.

I tried this but maybe I did it wrong.
Went to that windows web page and started the download. It download windows 10 and then while still in windows 10 (ie I'm on thr desltop) it started to reinstall the OS.

Did all that and sure I have win10 again minus the Lenovo stuff that usual comes with.

Turned off machine did the reset button and same results as above. Still bitlocker. Cause I never got an option to nuke the drive/partition.

I liked the bios world better as I knew that stuff.

 

[jkaetz]

I tried this but maybe I did it wrong.
Went to that windows web page and started the download. It download windows 10 and then while still in windows 10 (ie I'm on thr desltop) it started to reinstall the OS.

Did all that and sure I have win10 again minus the Lenovo stuff that usual comes with.

Turned off machine did the reset button and same results as above. Still bitlocker. Cause I never got an option to nuke the drive/partition.

I liked the bios world better as I knew that stuff.

Did it create a USB boot media? You want to boot from a USB drive. You should end up at a screen like this:

then do a custom install

Finally at this screen, delete all the partitions so it says something like Drive 0 unpartitioned space (I don't remember the exact wording) Then click next and the install media will re-create everything.

 

[jedi]

Did it create a USB boot media? You want to boot from a USB drive. You should end up at a screen like this:

then do a custom install

Finally at this screen, delete all the partitions so it says something like Drive 0 unpartitioned space (I don't remember the exact wording) Then click next and the install media will re-create everything.

I did not get any of these screens.
Hum... wonder what the heck I downloaded then.

Now it's just me to get rid of it even though I do have a workaround for it it seems.

But let me try again.
Are you use it's that link in the post above?

 

[Doug28450]

I did not get any of these screens.
Hum... wonder what the heck I downloaded then.

Now it's just me to get rid of it even though I do have a workaround for it it seems.

But let me try again.
Are you use it's that link in the post above?

Don't send any email, text or aynthing else to @jedi. He's a spy.

 

[jkaetz]

I did not get any of these screens.
Hum... wonder what the heck I downloaded then.

Now it's just me to get rid of it even though I do have a workaround for it it seems.

But let me try again.
Are you use it's that link in the post above?

So just to be sure, you used the Download button, opened the Media Creation tool, and selected the option to create installation media right? If so you should be able to boot the laptop from that USB drive (Probably have to find the button combination to change the boot drive) which should land you at the screens above.

 

[rhamersley]

I have a pentium 4 running Windows XP that's not passworded if you're interested...

 

[BroodXI]

Jedi, if you're wanting a clean 10 install, Jkaetz's got you going down the correct path.