Is there some sort of Bitlocker issue happening with win-11?

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Last year I bought some Kingston 128 gb SSD's on ebay.  They came from a vendor in BC (ie maybe Vancouver).

I knew these were older drives, I thought that maybe they were new old stock, maybe they were advertized as used.  They have a lot of them, I bought 10.  Maybe cost me $12 - $15 each.

I was looking for older drives after having bought some new 128 ssd's that don't work in IDE-compatibility mode (on older motherboards).  I've never encountered this before with SSD's only working in SATA-mode.  I've posted about this phenomena here somewere on msfn at the time.

Anyways, these older Kingston drives - I use them to make clone backups of our older systems (using Norton Ghost 3 booted from a floppy).  I can use ghost to tell me something about the target drive - like if it's been formatted or if it contains data.  It turns out these drives to seem to contain data, it looks like they were used in windows systems previously.  I could slave them to a working win-7 or win-10 PC and see if I can access their files.