- Mar 22, 2001
- 2,175
- 5
- 81
I'm trying to use one hard drive to store windows backup system images from two windows 10 machines. I would like the backups to be encrypted but it seems if I enable Bitlocker with the HD connected to one machine, it's not readable by the other.
I did the following:
1. On machine A, enabled Bitlocker on an externally connected drive.
2. Connected Bitlocker encrypted drive to computer B. Bitlocker on computer B does not accept password or recovery keys generated by computer A.
3. Did the same with machine B, with a different HD. Same issue, computer A can't read B's drive.
I understand that Bitlocker volumes are tied to a system's TPM, but I thought this is what a recovery key is for; for recovering data from a lost computer. Am I missing something here? What if someone's computer burns but they still have an external backup encrypted with Bitlocker? That data is gone because the TPM is gone? What if a person changes computers?
I did the following:
1. On machine A, enabled Bitlocker on an externally connected drive.
2. Connected Bitlocker encrypted drive to computer B. Bitlocker on computer B does not accept password or recovery keys generated by computer A.
3. Did the same with machine B, with a different HD. Same issue, computer A can't read B's drive.
I understand that Bitlocker volumes are tied to a system's TPM, but I thought this is what a recovery key is for; for recovering data from a lost computer. Am I missing something here? What if someone's computer burns but they still have an external backup encrypted with Bitlocker? That data is gone because the TPM is gone? What if a person changes computers?