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manage-bde device is not ready

Bitlocker was prompting me fro the recovery each time I booted. The solution to this is the following:
manage-bde -protectors c: -disable
manage-bde -protectors c: -ENABLE

However I was then told that the device was not ready when enabling it. The solution is to fire up disk management, assign a drive letter to the hidden partition and then give it a go. This worked for me and I was able to enable it fine. I then removed the drive letter.

Bitlocker GPO

“The Group Policy settings for BitLocker startup options are in conflict and cannot be applied.  Contact your system administrator for more information.”

Microsoft information in the GPO setting is incorrect. Try this:

under “Require additional authentication at startup”

– either you “allow” each option so you can choose which one when you set Bitlocker on,

– or you can “require” an option and disable all the others, so you will not be able to make a choice when you set bitlocker on.