Dec 17, 2018 Attach the USB flash drive to your Mac and locate its disk icon on your desktop, in a Finder window, or in the Finder sidebar, then right-click (or Ctrl-click) it and select Encrypt “[USB stick name]” from the contextual menu.
I figured it out - You do this:. Hit Win+ R to open the run dialogue box and type diskpart and hit “OK” to open a black command prompt window. Type list disk to display all the disks of your computer. Type select disk n. Here n stands for the disk you want to work well. Type list partition to display all the volumes on the hard drive.
Type select partition n. Here n stands for the volume you want to delete. Type delete partition override to get rid of the volume.
Type exit to close the window. This will wipe all the data on the USB/Partition.
Take your USB out and put it back in again. You then need to go into Computer Management Disk Management. Right click the USB/partition Make new volume. Then follow the prompts. Next next next - then your done! I just install Windows and when it comes to the time where setup asks you where you want to install Windows, I use 'advanced options' to delete all partitions.
Then let setup create a new partition for you and presto, you're done. Did this numerous times on a bunch of notebooks we aquired for recycling (I work at a thrift store of some sort), which were all encrypted with Bitlocker. It must have been at least 100 notebooks from a office centre that went belly-up, no problems what-so-ever. Hope this helps! Deleting the partition didn't work for me - I just wasn't able to select the partition ('No partition was selected.'
) However, once you select the USB drive (double check that you have the right drive selected!), the whole disk can also be wiped out like this: clean DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk. create partition primary DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition. select partition 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
active DiskPart marked the current partition as active. format fs=FAT32 quick 100 percent completed DiskPart successfully formatted the volume. assign DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.
exit. If data in the external HDD is not a concern,then do the following:. Press the start button and search for Disk Management and from the result select 'Create and Format hard disk partitions'. Look for your External hard disk. Right click on format. Formatting from My Computer is not possible for Bitlocker-enabled hard drive. Now you get a dialog stating all your data will be lost.Click'Yes'.
you'll get another dialog stating'This drive is Bitlocker enabled,formatting it will remove Bitlocker. Obviously, click yes.
Now your HDD is formatted and you can now again access it the way you used to P.s: Don't again try messing with Bitlocker it might/will get you in a lot of trouble. I have an SSD that was locked by BitLocker. Thankfully I did not need to get at the data. I just wanted to reuse the drive.
At first I thought I would need to use Linux as mentioned by another user, but thankfully I did not. Here's what I did:. I bought an external drive housing that fit my drive. I plugged it into another laptop via USB. At first, it did not show up in my drive list.
Luckily I got distracted with something else and left it plugged in. After about five minutes, it popped up on my list, and an additional pop up window came up asking for the BitLocker key. I left the pop up window there (not sure if that mattered), and went over to the drive in my file explorer. I right-clicked, and it let me format the drive!. Then I put it back in the original laptop, changed the BIOS to boot from CD, and installed Windows 10 from CD.
I think that the method that I used was simpler than most of these suggestions. I just did this on a number of our company's laptops. We are closing and will be turning all of our assets, including the computers, over to the new tenants. So we needed a way to wipe all of the hard drives and I didn't really want to enter a BitLocker key for each of the units. Boot the computer into the BIOS.
Reset the TPM to the default values (actually I set all BIOS values to their factory values). Use Darick's Boot And Nuke (DBAN) to create a bootable CD. Reboot the computer and hit F12 (or whatever function key your computer uses) to select the alternate boot menu. Boot from the CD, select the data wiping algorithm and let it go. If you do not have an optical drive you can create a bootable USB drive with DBAN and an ISO to USB utility and boot from the USB. You will be left with a hard drive with no partitions and no operating system.