i agree because i have a 4 tb nvme that i now have to decrypt so i can duel boot and its 4 terabytes so its taking forever
So, I ran into this issue because the ubuntu installer was picking up a partition on my ventoy USB that was encrypted with bitlocker, not the install drive. Once I turned off bitlocker on that partition it installed fine.
This alleged “feature” is terrible. The installer is blocked because some remote partition on a secondary data disk is Bitlocker encrypted, which should have exactly nothing to do with what I am trying to achieve by installing Ubuntu, but the installer doesn’t let me continue unless I disable BitLocker. Honestly, I’ll use another distro.
Please undo this rubbish
MS says TPM is non-negotiable and this is just blithely accepted as TWOG, e.g. no push-back, nothing… and Ubuntu catches heat for its “rubbish”? MS is the problem, not Ubuntu.
Absolutely nothing is preventing whoever maintains the installer to add a button saying “I’m 21, I know what I am doing, install Ubuntu even if somewhere something is encrypted with Bitlocker. I take responsibility for this.” We’re not all imbeciles, some of us have a Bitlocker encrypted disk somewhere inside the computer and are confident we can handle the situation.
If the Ubuntu installer could read encrypted drives then that would be evidence that Ubuntu developers have illegally hacked the encryption.
Who has the legal authority to de-crypt an encrypted drive? The person who legally holds the passphrase. That same person has the legal authority to turn off BitLocker if he/she so chooses.
Not being able to read an encrypted drive does not make Ubuntu “rubbish.” It prevents Ubuntu from being used to illegally hack other people’s computers.
Well done Ubuntu developers.
Regards
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What is this???
Ubunti 24.10 can not install on a separate physical SATA-SSD, because I have another M.2-drive with Win 10 + bitlocker?
While, for example, Linux Mint and Linux Mint DE and Fedora can be installed without any problem at all?
- If this is because of Ubuntu-install (USB, ISO) - it needs to be fixed.
- If this is because of Windows, why can Linux Mint be installed without any problems?
I will not remove my M.2-drive, nor disable Bitlocker i Windows, if Ubuntu is the only Linux Distro I can´t install because of this problem. I do very much appreciate everyone who have come up with the workarounds. But in my opinion it should work without workarounds.
Unfortunately I can´t code and have no idea how to solve this except the workarounds, so I can´t contribute to other solutions. If anyone/a group more capable than me can fix this “bug” I think it would be beneficial. I know I would be very grateful.
Thank you all 
Best regards
//M
Yes, it would be nice if workarounds were truly appreciated. But, end users aren’t the issue in this case. MS has gone out of their way to protect their business model, in the past, now and in the future. It’s no secret that they’d like to put a clamp on hardware/software with (and only with) MS products installed on it/them. e.g. The traditional approach that the Linux platform has used for home desktops of repurposing old(er) equipment is getting more difficult. It’s time to push back on MS. Go ahead, buy their stuff and their subcontractors stuff. But, at some point you won’t be able to repurpose it or complain that somebody else couldn’t do it for you.
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