Unable to Boot to Dell Recovery Partition After Encrypting with Dell Encryption

Affected Products:

• Dell Encryption
• Dell Data Protection | Encryption

Dell Encryption will, by default, encrypt all mounted hard disk volumes and partitions after running the activation wizard. If the recovery partition is mounted and encrypted, it is no longer bootable and some application features that rely on the partition such as Dell Backup and Recovery Manager does not function.

To ensure that the recovery partition is not encrypted, Dell Recommends updating to the latest version of Dell Encryption. Protections were put in place in v8.11.0 that prevent this from happening. Older versions of the Dell Data Protection client should leverage the following exclusions to ensure that the issue is not encountered:

-^F#:\Boot\
-^F#:\Recovery\
-^F#:\System Volume Information\
-^F#:\bootmgr
-^F#:\BOOTNXT
-^F#:\BOOTSECT.BAK

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