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Yes! This happened to me when I turned off the 'safe boot' on a laptop via BIOS. It locked me out but I had never agreed to install Bitlocker in the first place, let alone know what key I was supposed to have. It was a total loss & I had to wipe the drive.
MS is hot trash.
The decryption key is saved in the Microsoft account, the error message explains that
I also almost got a panic attack when my Lenovo updated the bios and i was locked out
This is already looking like Microsuck is asking for a Windows 11/BitLocker based Class Action Lawsuit against them for this data lose blunder, and hopefully get their currently CEO fired.
They're making an increasingly compelling case for me to switch to Linux.
Your title is borked. Maybe edit that
It's duplicated in case half of it is lost to Bitlocker
I had a small Win11 machine that I now have Ubuntu on. Win11 wouldn't let me use the whole disk because of the BitLocker bullshit. I had to dig through the menus and disable it then wait hours for it to finish decrypting. Fuck Microsoft. I'm proud to say me and my GF dont have a single Microsoft product in our home, and I'm keeping that way.
Why couldn't you just format the entire drive with the linux installer?
I could only format the free space not used by the windows partition.
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I had a stroke reading the thread title.
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FIX YOUR FUCKING TITLE lazy ass
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really interesting to see that they have more posts than comments
Really wish we didn't have bots posting at all
I am LITERALLY in the process of migrating my servers to my new NixOS server after months of prep work. This couldn't have been more timely lol Funniest part is, I just did my own TPM based encryption on my drives.
That's extraordinary, even for Microsoft.
If you're on Win 11 Pro, up to 23H2, follow these steps to prevent 24H2:
win+R, type GPEDIT.MSC, press enter Locate "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update\Manage updates offered from Windows Update\Select the target feature update version"
Now click the "Enabled" button, type "Windows 11" in the first prompt and "23H2" in the second prompt and click "Apply"
That will prevent 24H2 from being downloaded and installed. When they've fixed this and the "Recall" mess, you can go back and undo the setting.
You can still do the "bypassnro" thing, it's just a script that's been removed. All it did was write a registry entry and reboot. This is the registry key entry - you can still press shift-F10 at the same point and type this manually:
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0
another method to try is this, instead of the registry entry:
start ms-cxh:localonly
but I haven't tried that one yet.
I've fixed it by axing my bitlocker encrypted partition that contained my Pro version OS and just installed arch.
I love how Windows fix has terminal and GUI configurations mixed as an unholy concoction directly from the HQ.
I'm of the opinion that encryption based security should be compartmentalized. IE, an encrypted folder, or "safe" app. Safes in housing are already a concept that is already commonly known so it would be natural to extend a safe into the digital realm. This would also help in the idea that safes are locked with a key, so if the user loses their keys, whatever is inside the safe, might as well be lost.
Now if EVERYTHING is a safe, (always on encryption). People will never known the difference. Its a dangerous type of security that is likely to be more a loss than a benefit.
But, houses have locks on the doors. The whole point of the house is to be a safe for people. Security is all about the threat model, your risk assessment should inform the security measures that make sense in the security/convenience continuum. Not everyone will be equally well served by the exact same risk mitigation methods.
The point of whole disk encryption is to delay or nullify physical device control. If your disk is not encrypted, but you have a single encrypted file a bad actor wants to access. If they get physical control, then it is game over. They have all the time and power in the world to crack down that one file. Now, most people don't have any one file(s) like that, but instead are worried about their private life in general. Without encryption, physical access to the device means total access to their entire life, the house had no locks and the thieves just waltzed in and took everything of value. Whole disk encryption is opting for a sturdier door, with better locks. Physical control is still bad, but access is orders of magnitude harder. Sure, if you lose the only key to your house, you better be prepared to break windows or walls to get in, but that is a user responsibility.
Windows is malware.
I remember when Linux users used to say that, but it turns out they were right.
I'm glad I leaved that cursed OS behind.
You can merge the choices and resolve the conflict: Microsoft users are dumb.
Clearly you've never used a Mac. It wasn't until 2024 that you could snap windows, they have a built in dark mode but the word processor that ships with their computer requires you to use a dark page template if you want black background/white text, and lord forgive you if you want to take a screenshot.
I think the vibe is kind of “works for grandma out of the box“, “someone in the small-but-mighty dev community made an [open-source] app for that”
Yeah frustrates me too but seeing it as a kind of culture would probably help me be less frustrated
Then Apple gets tiny bits of occasional flak for Sherlocking
Apple is almost the tale of two companies.
From the software usability perspective, they have the "it just works" reputation and that might be true if you're doing really basic stuff. I've found both windows and Linux to be much more user friendly if you want to do mildly advanced things.
Their hardware is generally pretty solid but comes at a premium, especially once you start talking about increasing RAM/SSD capacity. I have both a MacBook pro M3 pro and a Snapdragon X Elite Lenovo Yoga slim 7x. The 7x can give great battery life, but is much more inconsistent in doing so. On the other hand, the 7x has an amszing 3k OLED screen, has a removable m3 SSD, and you can upgrade to 32 GB of RAM for around $100.
What I find interesting is that a large swath of developers have macs. I get it for some use cases (ARM emulation on ARM vs doing it on x86), but it seems like it's a bit of a status symbol for others.
Surprise, surprise.
Forcing security measures onto someone who doesn't understand them or know how to recover their data if something goes wrong is a bad idea.
Fix that title gore please
~~Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced~~Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption
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Since when is Bitlocker required? None of my files are encrypted, and I've been using 11 since it came out.
It automatically encrypts the drive only if admin has a Microsoft account (to backup the key on their cloud servers for easier ~~LEO access~~ data recovery) and the PC is a prebuilt
If one of the condition is not met, the automatic ransomware isn't enabled
Did you use Rufus? You can bypass Bitlocker. Or your machine does not have TPM 2.0 (which you can also bypass)…?
Yeah I used Rufus. Always do for every OS install. Explains it lol
Bitlocker encrypts your drive, not single files. Once the computer is booted up, it's completely transparent to the user.
But my PC doesn't even have a password. So how can my files be encrypted? I thought a password was manditory for file encryption to work.
You probably haven't activate Bitlocker. Up until now it was optional with Windows. I would argue it isn't necessary for a desktop computer at home, but you should seriously consider activating disk encryption for a laptop.
Every retail PC I've seen with win11 has bitlocker enabled. Screwed one over as they forgot their password...
It tech here. Yup sure does. For enterprise customers it gets saved in active directory anyway. But for home users, no way. For new devices I always create a local account and turn off bitlocker if it happens to be enabled. Most people don't remember their email password, some don't even remember their email address. So many times I've had to remove the drive of a dead PC or laptop and copy all their files off of it, because people just don't make backups. But already happenend a few times now that a private customer got suckered into making a Microsoft account by one of those full screen pop ups. Probably set it up with an E-Mail some relative of theirs created just so they can download stuff of their Phones App store. And all their stuff just gets automatically encrypted. Bye Bye all the photos you had taken for the last 10 years. Thanks Microsoft.