Onlydarksets

I had to replace the MB on my laptop (the GPU imploded, taking pretty much everything with it).  Afterward, it would POST and boot, but I had two issues:

1. I had to re-enter the BitLocker key each time the computer booted or resumed from standby or hibernate, and
2. It was no longer activated and wouldn’t activate, with error 80072f8f.

The activation issue turned out to be simple – the clock on the MB was completely wrong, which causes activation to automatically fail.  Setting the clock (manually or via internet update) solved the problem.

The BitLocker problem sucks a bit more, though.  The only “fix” I could find is to decrypt the drive and re-encrypt it.  BitLocker would prefer that you take the following route:

1. Anticipate catastrophic failure
2. Temporarily disable BitLocker
3. Fix the error
4. Re-enable BitLocker

I skipped step #1, so I was SOL.  My bad.