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    Microsoft secured my files! (lemmy.world)
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    Back in January Microsoft encrypted all my hard drives without saying anything. I was playing around with a dual boot yesterday and somehow aggravated Secureboot. So my C: panicked and required a 40 character key to unlock.

    Your key is backed up to the Microsoft account associated with your install. Which is considerate to the hackers. (and saved me from a re-install) But if you've got an unactivated copy, local account, or don't know your M$ account credentials, your boned.

    Control Panel > System Security > Bitlocker Encryption.

    BTW, I was aware that M$ was doing this and even made fun of the effected users. Karma.

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    [โ€“] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 53 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

    Bit late to this thread but I know a few commands that might help if you're stuck:

    manage-bde -off C: (or any other drive) This decrypts the volume and turns off bitlocker

    manage-bde -lock/unlock

    manage-bde -protectors -get C: (or any other drive) This displays your 48-digit key. I suggest you store it somewhere, just to be safe.

    Get-BitlockerVolume reveals which of your partitions are encrypted with Bitlocker.

    Disclaimer: I am not a terminal nerd, I just had similar problems years ago and went down the rabbit hole, used these commands and turned off bitlocker permanently. I don't use windows anymore, but when I did, it didn't cause any problems with bitlocker after this. If you're concerned about your un-encrypted hard drives, consider using Veracrypt (carefully!) or similar open source encryption software.

    [โ€“] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    Alright, lol, I'll be the guy

    Hey OP, ever heard of Linux?

    [โ€“] stonedtemplepilot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    I mean you can write your Bitlocker key down and store it safely or put it somewhere else safe.. Lol

    [โ€“] Sydnxt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

    The main problem here is Bitlocker is being turned on by default on fresh 24H2 installs, most people that don't know how to bypass the online account requirement are making burner Microsoft accounts (Boomers), therefore do not know the credentials in 3-4 years when their computer needs a repair.

    [โ€“] andybytes@programming.dev 20 points 9 hours ago

    Windows is the virus.

    [โ€“] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Fuck Microsoft.

    I remember back in highschool a buddy encrypted his harddrive, didn't backup his key. He Lost ALOT when I upgraded his comp

    [โ€“] Aganim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    But how is that relevant to your 'Fuck Microsoft' if he knowingly encrypted his device, which is how you make it sound?

    I've enabled FDE on one of my Linux devices, I've already had to mount the filesystem in a rescue environment once because a failed update caused the system to be unable to boot. I would also have been hosed if I had lost the encryption key. Ok not really, because that's what backups are for, but you hopefully get the point.

    [โ€“] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago

    I've been preaching about this for a while. Many modern systems are getting bitlocker turned on by default.

    If your system gets messed up, or simply won't start because of some security vendors bad update, goodbye data. You need the recovery key, and if you don't have it, you'll never see your bits the the correct order again.

    [โ€“] andybytes@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago

    All in the name of national security *wink

    [โ€“] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    I got into coding in the last few days. I have a project. Bumping into this while I'm trying to learn this shit? Fuck me. You know, we could just stop using money

    [โ€“] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 5 points 3 hours ago

    I can't connect what you are saying into a coherent thread

    [โ€“] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

    No, we can't. Otherwise how would people like Elon and Bezos know that they're better than us?

    /s

    [โ€“] carrion0409@lemm.ee 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    I just leave secure boot/bitlocker off when it comes to my home system. It wasnt something I "needed" when I was dual booting windows 10 and it's not something I'm gonna enable now that I'm using 11.

    [โ€“] thomasloven@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Itโ€™s not โ€leaving bitlocker offโ€, though. Itโ€™s โ€be aware about it and turn bitlocker off manuallyโ€ since itโ€™s enabled by default in the latest updates.

    [โ€“] stonedtemplepilot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    That's false. My Windows partition didn't magically enable bitlocker and I'm on 24h2. LTSC build and local account tho.

    [โ€“] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 points 3 hours ago

    They can't do that legally without notifying our asking in eu

    [โ€“] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    I tried having it on my new laptop for a bit. It took like a week for Windows to kill the secure boot key for my Linux partition. Even after I disabled secure boot I couldn't get it to boot up so I had to reinstall. Just left it turned off afterwards.

    [โ€“] carrion0409@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago

    Its just not worth the trouble for a home pc imo

    [โ€“] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

    This has been happening to people randomly for years. Ysed to get calls about it all the time, and that was pre-covid

    [โ€“] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

    [โ€“] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 20 hours ago

    Always have backups! Doesnt matter what OS you use, stuff will break eventually.

    I prefer bootable full system images to my NAS for easy restores, and online file backups, both running daily.

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