This post is similar to this, but there are some important differences that make this a different scenario.
I have a PC running windows 10 home that I'm trying to partition the drive of. I need to shrink the volume, but it throws the error below.
BitLocker Drive Encryption cannot be used because critical BitLocker system files are missing or corrupted. Use Windows Startup Repair to restore these files to your computer.
Now, the difference between my issue and the post above is that my drives are in no way encrypted with bitlocker.
I also do not have bitlocker installed as expected.
I ran a couple codes from the original post to turn off bitlocker from powershell and naturally it threw an error saying my drives aren't encrypted.
I've rebooted multiple times and it still throws the error. Does anyone have any idea what I should do here?
Here are some screenshots for reference: Disk management, and as requested, the settings menu with a missing "device encryption" menu.
On a footnote: I ran a batch script from major geeks that enables the group policy editor in windows 10 home. I'm not sure if that has any association, but it doesn't hurt to mention just in case.
