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    Don't mess up secure boot with bitlocker (lemmy.zip)
    submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-24h2-will-enable-bitlocker-encryption-for-everyone-happens-on-both-clean-installs-and-reinstalls

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    [–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Remember, always print your recovery code to pdf and save it to the same drive. This way, when it happens, you're forced to only use Linux.

    [–] pivot_root 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I had this happen to me with a hardware-encrypted bitlocker drive. I was forced to buy a new SSD, actually.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    You couldn't reformat?

    [–] pivot_root 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    When using Opal (hardware encryption), it locks down the drive. Not even a secure erase would wipe/release the damn thing.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] pivot_root 2 points 5 months ago

    It would have if I actually had the PSID 🥲

    It was an expensive lesson to take photos of my new drives and store the PSID and serial numbers in KeePass.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I thought Windows wouldn't let you save it to the same drive? Its been a while, granted. But i had to plug in a USB or print it out.

    [–] valkyre09 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    It is clever enough to not let you save the key to the same drive that’s encrypted. If you print to PDF the print dialogue box doesn’t care where you save the PDF.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    Ahh, never knew that!