I have a Precision Mobile Workstation 7510 running WIndows 10 with two drives. I have Bitlocker enabled on both drives.
Dell Command Update recently notified me of a BIOS update but warned me that I must suspend BitLocker protection to perform the update.
I suspended BitLocker on the OS drive, but it appears that Windows 10 does not allow me to suspend BitLocker on the second drive. My only option to turn BitLocker off on the secondary drive is to do a full volume decryption, which takes hours (it's a 2GB drive).
Turning BitLocker off on the OS drive does not seem to convince Dell Command Update that things are ready for the update. I suspect that it is the fact BitLocker is still enabled on the secondary drive that is causing Dell Command Update to balk.
So, questions:
1) Am I deducing the problem correctly? Is it the fact that the secondary drive has BitLocker still enabled that is stopping Dell Command Update from updating?
2) Is there any way to convince Dell Command Update to proceed with the update?
3) If I manually install the update (bypassing Dell Command Update) without completely disabling BitLocker on the secondary drive, will there be any adverse effects (such as being unable to access data on my secondary drive)?
4) Is there a way to get around #3 without completely decrypting and then later re-encrypting the secondary drive? Can I remove it from my computer while the BIOS update runs and add it back later fir a seamless transition? Or can I save the recovery key to the secondary drive somewhere and use it to access the drive after the update and change/fix the recovery key without a full decrypt/encrypt process?
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