Dell PowerEdge Server BitLocker Hotswap Hard disks

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Published on 2012-06-29T01:55:49Z Indexed on 2012/06/29 3:17 UTC
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We have a Windows 2008 R2 Server running on a Dell PowerEdge R310 Server with Bitlocker enabled. There are two physical Hard disks configured as RAID 1. One of the disks recently started having an issue, so we have now have a warranty covered replacement for it, But we were curious if there will be any issues hot swapping the new drive in due to BitLocker being enabled?

Has anyone had a similar experience with scenario?

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