New to me university surplus laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad). No hard drive came with it. When I tried to start up from the USB stick to install Windows on my blank hard drive, bitlocker jumped in and tried to get me to unlock the hard drive.
While I was messing around with the hard drive plugged into another computer to make sure it didn't have anything on it yet, the laptop started up without a hard drive at all, just the USB installer plugged in, and still got the blue bitlocker recovery page.
How am I getting the bitlocker recovery page with no hard drive installed? How can I get past the bitlocker recovery page so I can install windows on my blank hard drive?