Bitlocker ERROR: An error occurred (code 0x80290107): Windows 10 Pro

Question

_{Friday, October 14, 2016 12:28 AM}

Hello everyone,

I am trying to enable bitlocker with startup pin. I am getting and error every time I try to enable it. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Thank you for your time.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>manage-bde -protectors -add c: -TPMAndPIN
BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.14393
Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Type the PIN to use to protect the volume:
Confirm the PIN by typing it again:
Key Protectors Added:

ERROR: An error occurred (code 0x80290107):
An internal error was detected.

All replies (2)

_{Friday, October 14, 2016 8:02 AM ✅Answered}

Use the GUI to turn on bitlocker. Afterwards, retry your command after you delete the TPM protector:

manage-bde -protectors -delete c: -type tpm

manage-bde -protectors -add c: -TPMAndPIN

_{Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:25 AM | 2 votes}

I recently saw this same error, when trying to add TPMandPin protector to OS drive on Win2012 using PowerShell

Hardware : Dell 730XD

OS : Windows 2012 R2

root Cause - the TPM Advanced settings in BIOS was set to SHA256, not SHA1, took me a while to find this out, so thought I would share in case anyone else stumbles on this forum :)

Helpful page from Dell site that explains the above

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2016/09/08/configuring-tpm-2-0-on-dell-poweredge-13g-servers-for-windows-server-2012r2-and-windows-server-2016

Happy encrypting everyone