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Microsoft locks Windows 11 user out, shows how easy losing data from forced encryption is (www.neowin.net)
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[โ€“] stray@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think I grasp this at all. They say the encryption is forced, so that means that I can't just access my files with Linux or whatever? But then at the end they say to use an extra hard drive as backup, so that can't be right. Is their problem that the cloud storage is encrypted? Wouldn't it be a huge, glaring issue if it wasn't? Regardless, I would expect to be locked out of my files on a cloud storage service I got locked out of, so I don't know what encryption has to do with it. I don't get it.

[โ€“] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Linux supports BitLocker encrypted partitions. You just have to specify the BitLocker recovery-key in your fstab file or on the command-line. I've been dual-booting with disk encryption enabled on both Linux and Windows for several years, using that functionality

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