alt Hacker News> Even with the key, one must decrypt and re-encrypt.
That's not true, the unlock key will be regenerated, but the disk contents will not be re-encrypted, because it's encrypted with another immutable key.
> Even with the key, one must decrypt and re-encrypt.
That's not true, the unlock key will be regenerated, but the disk contents will not be re-encrypted, because it's encrypted with another immutable key.
Thanks may be I didn't know the exact steps. It kept prompting key at every startup until I disabled and re-enabled bitlocker.