{"id":417,"date":"2018-09-14T22:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T03:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=417"},"modified":"2018-09-21T18:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:29:43","slug":"bitlocker-cant-find-the-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/bitlocker-cant-find-the-file\/","title":{"rendered":"BitLocker Can&#8217;t find the file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was an interesting one, created a new Windows image to deploy recently. Then after deployment went to enable bitlocker and was prompted with the error &#8220;The system cannot not find the file specified&#8221;. Since this was new to new, what other than to do a web search to see if anyone else had experienced this, and <a href=\"https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/windows\/en-US\/51947c62-dbcb-4613-b10d-707ff8b61d0d\/bitlocker-quotthe-system-cannot-find-the-file-specifiedquot?forum=w8itprosecurity\">sure enough<\/a>, yup.<\/p>\n<p>Short answer: rename REAgent.xml file (in C:\\Windows\\System32\\Recovery) to REAgent.xml.old (or dlete it but I haven&#8217;t tested that).<\/p>\n<p>and it worked, apparently&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sooooo, what we have found is that when we captured the image, since we had already opened the Bitlocker console (even though we hadn&#8217;t actually Bitlocked the unit), the REAgent.xml file (in C:\\Windows\\System32\\Recovery) had been populated with the specific GUIDs for both WinreBCD and WinreLocation path.&#8221; &#8211; Borch25<\/p>\n<p>I like borch, can&#8217;t wait for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was an interesting one, created a new Windows image to deploy recently. Then after deployment went to enable bitlocker and was prompted with the error &#8220;The system cannot not find the file specified&#8221;. Since this was new to new, what other than to do a web search to see if anyone else had experienced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/bitlocker-cant-find-the-file\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BitLocker Can&#8217;t find the file&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[91,92],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infosec","category-server-administration","tag-bitlocker","tag-system-file"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}