I recently created a HD for dual boot Win 11 and Pop Os. I created a shared partition for Data, and separate partitions for the respective OS. I used gParted to create the partitions. It looks like Win then added bitlocker to this data partition.
(It’s not really encrypted, I guess, because I didn’t create a microsoft account, and didn’t receive a recovery key)
So now I can’t access that partition when booted into Pop OS without entering a password (which I don’t have).
I’m wondering a couple of things: what’s the best practice in these scenarios? Have the shared data drive not be encrypted with Bitlocker? If so, is there something else that should be done for security purposes? If not, it looks like using Dislocker is a common solution to access the drive in Linux?
I assume you want disk encryption on Windows which is why you haven’t turned off bitlocker and disabled it in BIOS. I’m not familiar with whole disk encryption on Windows but Linux has many options.
If you’re going to dual boot I would recommend a separate boot partition for GRUB/boot manager that points to the windows boot partition because Windows likes to mess up a shared boot partition.
**EDIT: This guy seems to have got both working: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=273365
Honestly I’ve been away from Windows long enough that it just wasn’t a consideration while I was creating the partitions and then the dual boot. I just discovered that it’d happened when I went to access the shared partition in pop and was asked for the password.
I do want to retain a shared data partition between the two OS, however. Obvs the partition for the Window OS itself could remain encrypted, since that doesn’t affect pop os. And if it is best practice for system security.
I’ll read up that link to see what he has to recommend!
