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I installed Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10. Ubuntu has been working pretty good for the most part, Windows 10, on the other hand, is not too happy. I tried to go into Windows 10 from Grub, and the BitLocker screen comes up asking for a key that I do not have.

I have tried several things. Including trying to disable BitLocker from the command line [As I seen from other posts], but it tells me it is encrypted and it cannot perform the operation. I tried starting in safe mode, and I have tried booting from my "Windows 10 Recovery USB" that I made prior to the install, but again it won't let me choose that partition because it is encrypted.

I backed up my data in case something crazy happened so at this point I would be willing to wipe the drive clean and install a fresh install of Windows.

Any ideas or recommendations?

0siris
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You probably activated Full Disk Encryption when installing Ubuntu 18.04, and doing this encrypted the Windows partition too. I don't think it's impossible to remove the LUKS encryption, but it's not easy at all for a beginner (see here and here). If you have all your data backed up, just do a fresh install of both Windows and Ubuntu. And don't activate LUKS again, try some other encryption technique if it's important for you to have encryption, this question may be a good starting point.

Eärendil Baggins
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