Question Just did a clean install of Win10 on my laptop and drive encryption was enabled?

mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
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It's an old laptop, Dell XPS 9343. I had been running Win11 on it (disabled requirements checks on install), but 22H2 wasn't ever offered so I felt it was time to put Win10 back on.

Somehow I ended up with drive encryption enabled? I only spotted it because this is going to be a dual-boot job and I went to check Disk Management to see if Win10 had done anything screwy with the partition structure to make my life harder (it hadn't).

I thought that when drive encryption was enabled, 'this pc' (in file explorer) would show a padlock icon on the drive? Admittedly I didn't check this explicitly before switching off drive encryption (you can do that? cool), but I'm sure I would previously have noticed if drive encryption was enabled if the padlock icon should be there in that situation.