I recently cloned my HDD to an SSD. I previously had Bitlocker, but disabled (decrypted) before cloning.
Now that I've swapped in the SSD, I want to reenable Bitlocker. When it is almost done encrypting, it pauses with the error:
[Window Title] BitLocker Drive Encryption [Main Instruction] An error occurred. [Content] This disk has one or more errors. Run "chkdsk /r". If these errors persist this may be indicative of a hardware fault. Contact the administrator of your system. [Close] [Footer] Manage BitLocker
I have tried running chkdsk /r. It says I have to reboot, since this is the system disk. Rebooting doesn't seem to actually run a chkdsk, and the problem persists.
How can I fix this?
Best Answer
Just thought I'd contribute my solution to experiencing a similar problem. Slightly different scenario, I was integrating BitLocker encryption with the OS image via MDT (for Dell Latitude 6430u laptops), but found it would ALWAYS fail/crash when encryption progress hit 10.8% The resolution to my problem was to change the SATA operation mode of my SSD, from RAID (BIOS default for some reason) to AHCI. After this BitLocker completed without any issues.