INSTALLING WINDOWS ON TOP OF A BITLOCKERED MACHINE KEYGEN
I just don't want to lose ALL my data on that not sure what you're referring to when you say "PTT". I know it will get rid of any passkeys (like I have any!). I have a question someone here might answer: If I disable the PTT in the bios, will it kill the encryption.
If there was some way to access the data without any of those things, then unfortunately the encryption would be effectively addition, I cannot get the system to just flashes and goes back to the request screen. It seems more likely that it would have encrypted your secondary drive and then locked you out of it with a ransom note.Īnyhow, unfortunately if you don't know the password, don't have a Recovery Key, and don't have an auto-unlock file anymore elsewhere, then the data is lost. Do you ever recall seeing that?įor a moment I thought this might have been a case of malware or ransomware encrypting your secondary drive, but it doesn't seem likely that it would also have enabled auto-unlock so you wouldn't notice this problem until you wiped your OS partition (and therefore the auto-unlock key). And BitLockered partitions have a lock icon shown over the drive icon when you view them in the "This PC" view of Windows Explorer. But auto-unlock would also have to be manually enabled. In addition, the only way your secondary drive could have been locked without you realizing it would have been if it had been enabled for auto-unlock on that system, but that would require your OS partition to also be encrypted with BitLocker, since any auto-unlock keys get stored on that partition. For any other drives, including other partitions on the same physical disk, BitLocker has to be manually enabled, and if you go through the regular wizard rather than using something like PowerShell, you are FORCED to back up the Recovery Key before encryption will enable. However, all of that only ever applies to the OS partition. I think it's a really bad implementation of a decent idea (protecting user data).
Unfortunately the user is never notified that this has happened OR that they can access their Recovery Key from their Microsoft account, and even the Recovery Key prompt if they ever see it doesn't suggest that. I do know that some Dell systems ship with BitLocker "prepped", and if you choose to link your Windows logon account to a Microsoft account, BitLocker is automatically enabled because the Recovery Key is backed up to the Microsoft account you linked with.
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