📎 AI Summary:
The original poster, Calby, asks whether they can enable BitLocker to encrypt only external and internal drives without a TPM, and then later add a TPM chip to encrypt the OS disk without issues. A secondary user, kemical, signals limited expertise but suggests consulting the BitLocker FAQ for guidance. The overall thread addresses concerns about encrypting drives without TPM and the potential to upgrade system security after hardware changes.

Calby

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Hi,
I currently don't have TPM chip on my server, but I'm planing to install it - I can only get v1.2 but it's good I guess.

I want to install bitlocker now on my server and only encrypt my external and internal drives, not the system drive due to the lack of TPM as I need to boot it without any hickups with rdp and as I don't have any TPM chip I can't boot it with rdp if I encrypt the OS disk.

So my question is, can I install bitlocker and encrypt the external drives and then after (3 weeks from now) I can add the TPM chip to my server and then encrypt my OS disk? Is that possible?

Or should I wait with installing bitlocker until I get the TPM chip?