Symptoms

You want to perform an entire machine recovery (bare metal recovery) of a Windows device, where the device in question has BitLocker enabled. Attempting the recovery using the Cyber Protection Console fails with the following error message:

Cannot find a primary partition with enough free space for the loader activation.

Cause

It is impossible to perform an entire machine recovery using the Cyber Protect Console. You must perform the recovery using bootable media instead.

Solution

Perform an entire machine recovery using bootable media.