I can't find explicit documentation on this anywhere: Is BitLocker doing an in-place encryption?
As to, I can actually encrypt my whole running system, with the Windows partition itself, without having to install Windows from scratch?
I can't find explicit documentation on this anywhere: Is BitLocker doing an in-place encryption?
As to, I can actually encrypt my whole running system, with the Windows partition itself, without having to install Windows from scratch?
Yes, in place. It resume if you have to close the computer too.
You can see the high level step there; https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-encrypt-system-partition-bitlocker-windows-7-windows-8