Hello. I have 3 drives in my PC:
However... Today, I decided to encrypt my Windows partitions with BitLocker. So I booted into W8.1 and encrypted W7 partition with no problem - after restarting, I got into GRUB2, selected Windows, got into Windows multi-boot graphical menu, chose W7, entered newly configured BitLocker password, and it booted / started flawlessly.
Then, in W7, I was going to encrypt W8.1 partition. There was the first problem - when I right-clicked W8.1 partition, there was no "Turn On BitLocker" option. I tried to encrypt it thorugh the Control Panel, but even there was no W8.1 partition shown. Then I tried allowing no TPM devices to be encrypted, but problem still persisted.
Weird thing was that when I booted into W8.1 and right-clicked its partition, the BitLocker option was there (I do not have a clue why I could encrypt W7 partition from W8.1, but couldn't do it vice-versa??). So I run BitLocker from W8.1, but it was slightly different from before - when I was setting it up for W7, it only asked me for password, but now it said:
I did not have a good feeling about it from the start, but after small research I realized that I probably don't have any other options, so I risked it. BitLocker began shrinking partition and preparing it. When the process was complete, it prompted me to restart computer.
I can't boot into neither W8.1 nor W7 since I restarted. After choosing Windows in GRUB2 menu, I'll get into black screen with message
I checked HDD in Ubuntu. BitLocker cut ~350MB from W8.1 partition and created new partition from it. The new partition also had a boot flag. So I thought maybe if I deleted this newly created BitLocker partition and set the boot flag back to W8.1, everything would go back to normal. It didn't work. And there's another weird thing - in GParted there's a red exclamation mark next to it, and it also can't see how much space is free / used:
The last thing I tried was creating bootable Windows USB > Repair system > Command Prompt:
While /fixmbr and /scanos worked, /fixboot is outputting "Element not found." error. /rebuildbcd found just one Windows installation instead of two and after I pressed Y to add at least that one to BCD, there was the same element error. The very last thing I did was running diskpart and activating both Windows partitions. As you can excpect, nothing was solved.
Can some here know what else should I try to get it back to normal?
- SSD with Ubuntu
- HDD for downloads etc. - no OS
- HDD with Windows 8.1 partition & Windows 7 partition & 1 empty partition
However... Today, I decided to encrypt my Windows partitions with BitLocker. So I booted into W8.1 and encrypted W7 partition with no problem - after restarting, I got into GRUB2, selected Windows, got into Windows multi-boot graphical menu, chose W7, entered newly configured BitLocker password, and it booted / started flawlessly.
Then, in W7, I was going to encrypt W8.1 partition. There was the first problem - when I right-clicked W8.1 partition, there was no "Turn On BitLocker" option. I tried to encrypt it thorugh the Control Panel, but even there was no W8.1 partition shown. Then I tried allowing no TPM devices to be encrypted, but problem still persisted.
Weird thing was that when I booted into W8.1 and right-clicked its partition, the BitLocker option was there (I do not have a clue why I could encrypt W7 partition from W8.1, but couldn't do it vice-versa??). So I run BitLocker from W8.1, but it was slightly different from before - when I was setting it up for W7, it only asked me for password, but now it said:
I did not have a good feeling about it from the start, but after small research I realized that I probably don't have any other options, so I risked it. BitLocker began shrinking partition and preparing it. When the process was complete, it prompted me to restart computer.
I can't boot into neither W8.1 nor W7 since I restarted. After choosing Windows in GRUB2 menu, I'll get into black screen with message
I checked HDD in Ubuntu. BitLocker cut ~350MB from W8.1 partition and created new partition from it. The new partition also had a boot flag. So I thought maybe if I deleted this newly created BitLocker partition and set the boot flag back to W8.1, everything would go back to normal. It didn't work. And there's another weird thing - in GParted there's a red exclamation mark next to it, and it also can't see how much space is free / used:
The last thing I tried was creating bootable Windows USB > Repair system > Command Prompt:
Code:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcdWhile /fixmbr and /scanos worked, /fixboot is outputting "Element not found." error. /rebuildbcd found just one Windows installation instead of two and after I pressed Y to add at least that one to BCD, there was the same element error. The very last thing I did was running diskpart and activating both Windows partitions. As you can excpect, nothing was solved.
Can some here know what else should I try to get it back to normal?
I suppose that bootloader for both Windows 8.1 and 7 is completely broken, so GRUB couldn't find it.
