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Windows 7 BitLocker

by Naveed8080 Feb 7, 2010 2:41PM PST

hi,
i m a win-7 user and i have locked my drive by bit locker
after a couple of weeks there was some error or something
which cause automatic repair and win-7 locked c: it self

now i m trying to reinstall win-7, but its not allowing me to
format c: , after this i cleared all partitions on HDD
and formatted c: many time

but still win-7 setup says there is some error at some 'hexa decimal value' {probably some memory address}

How can i re Install win-7

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Could the error be a bum hard drive?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 7, 2010 9:33PM PST

Try another hard drive.

Try DBAN after you read what DBAN does (see google.)
Bob

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sounds like a bum drive

by TaraS_WinTeam Feb 8, 2010 3:36AM PST

I agree with Bob on looking more into your drive as a source of the problem. Since you didn't mention it, I recommend you take extra percaution next time by saving your recovery key: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-is-a-BitLocker-recovery-key.

Tara

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