I woke up one day with CMOS battery dead, gave it a shrug, it restarted, come to see this screen everytime I boot the PC now. I don't remember what microsoft email it was, because I never used that email or micosoft account. For the past week, everytime I google, all signs point to my entire harddrive being encrypted and ransomwared by bitlocker and me getting cucked out of my files.
Am I fricked and should I just format the drive, buy a new motherboard, cut my losses and never use secureboot ever again?
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Why would you use bitlocker but not a password manager?
yes, your drive is encrypted
why the frick did you not store the key somewhere safe
the only safe storage would be on an encrypted drive
Fricking irony again.
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I leave my passwords in cryptic notes that I glue on my drawer.
Yeah, your drive is encrypted. If you can't get the recovery key from your email, than maybe look on github, there are tools specifically for breaking bitlocker encryption
Or you could call customer support, thereay be someone at Microsoft or dell or whatever that can help
No, there aren't. They all require a backed-up key protector - they can't "break" anything.
Ask the FBI to use their backdoor.
>IQfyentoomen who thought they were clever circumventing bitlocker recovery key backup
>posting their Ls online
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
EVERYONE LAUGH AT THIS FRICKING moron
>because I never used that email or micosoft account
Just go to the USB drive or external drive you saved it to, if you didn't back it up to an online account then you saved it to some file not on your C: drive.
Not bypassing bitlocker in this lifetime just reinstall windows
>cut my losses and never use secureboot ever again?
Nah just remember where you put your recovery key in case this happens again.
>be little schizo
>listen to huge schizos about encrypting his shit
>doesn't take the proper schizo way of keeping his keys on paper too
>gets rightfully fricked in the ass
Just keep trying to get into the Microsoft account, once there you can get the 48 digit key. Bitlocker comes pre-enabled out of the box on many units nowadays and won't tell you. The only hint is the padlock on your c: drive
It doesn't come with preboot key enabled
They do, they tie it to your ms account the moment you sign in without a prompt.
t. works in highest rated PC support and repair shop in his city
No they don't come with a preboot key to boot, I test laptops for work for evaluting school windows laptops. They aren't enabled with TPM preboot key, they just have basic encryption enabled. You basically have to swap the SSD into a new PC to trigger this.
If you don't sign into a MS account it tells you to save the key onto a usb drive.
>Bitlocker comes pre-enabled out of the box on many units nowadays and won't tell you.
This is incredibly evil. Way more than whatever they're spying on you.
And to be clear, you can make a Microsoft account with an external email address like a Gmail or yahoo.com. Try any emails you use.
Your C drive gets automatically encrypted if you sign in with a Microsoft account, and the encryption key is backed up to said account.
If you don't it doesn't.
This is completely reasonable behavior.
>This is completely reasonable behavior.
Surreptitiously encrypting your drive is not reasonable behavior you fricking israelite.
>Surreptitiously encrypting your drive is not reasonable behavior
Why?
>you fricking israelite.
What do I, as an alleged israelite, gain from you having full disk encryption on your laptop/workstation.
>What do I, as an alleged israelite, gain from you having full disk encryption on your laptop/workstation.
Key word here is "surreptitious."
>Why?
Because you're locking me out of my own data.
>Key word here is "surreptitious."
It's not a secret. This is documented behavior you can easily opt out of.
>Because you're locking me out of my own data.
No. As mentioned previously your recovery key is backed up to either your Microsoft account or an external drive of your choosing. If you somehow lose access to that key, that's your own damn fault.
This is like saying that Lockwood locked you out of your house because you were stupid and left your keys in the kitchen counter.
>with the key fob beeping at you constantly to not leave it behind
>but you ignored that ceiling bird - theres just something in your dna allowing you to filter it out
>but its really the ceiling birds fault youre sleeping in your car in the driveway
>frick ceiling birds
>frick israelites
>its all their fault
>im innocent
>im the victim
Why is every IQfy thread like this
>etc
have a nice day Satan
>AAAAAAAAAAAA THING I DON'T UNDERSTAND KILL IT KILL IT
The absolute state of IQfy - Technology
Give it back, Bernie.
>I don't remember what microsoft email it was
They ask you for the password at every boot, how come seeing the email daily and using the password doesn't ring a bell?
Give it back, Black person.
PINs make a quick shortcut to ignore the full password
ouch
Hope you at least learn to never store data on C:
Bitlocker won't let you save the key to c drive unless you unc to \127.0.01c$
You can print to pdf to your c:
Backups make that irrelevant, autist.
>he doesn't maintain a backup drive
I guess we're all 15 years old at some point.
There's stuff I consciously decided not to back up more than once. If I lose it, it still will hurt. I'm 39.
>secureboot
that's not secure boot though
>Am I fricked
Where is your recovery key? It forced you to either print it or save it.
>should I just format the drive
You can do whatever you want, but you aren't getting your files back without that fricking key in any case, so figure it out.
OP is a moron, but BitLocker being on by default on newer machines is a fricking nightmare for wagies everywhere and whoever made that decision should be shot. People's 80 year old grandmas aren't gonna know what the frick an encryption key is, and they probably don't even need encryption in the first place.
should've connected to your microsoft account, chud.
Bitloxker is only available on windows pro as it's for businesses. You're not using windows pro are you?
have a nice day discord troony spammer
>not having a backup of your files
>not having the ley stored on a random thumbdrive somewhere
>using fricking bitlocker
Install Linux. Simple as
have a nice day jay
see
everyday the same shit spammed, chimps out about a random Windows feature
You are a lying Black person.
Just break bitlocker, the implementation is so bad even a normalgay like you can do it
>hey mom i posted it again
Didn't you learn anything from half-dozen threads you got mocked in for posting this clickbait?
ahahahahaha wincucks btfo
Imagine you can break the highest security standard of a trillion dollar companies with tools for 5 bucks from ebay, the absolute state of Windows in 2024
is this real? that's it, I'm switching to linux
Give it back Jamal
Learn to write your important pw somewhere on paper if you have the IQ of a dead Black person.
The key is in your Microsoft account
>Uhh idk what that is
Your data is gone and you probably should just use the Home version of Windows from now on since you obviously aren't responsible enough for the pro or whatever version
IQfy is like
>dude MicroSHIT is so easy to hack and get around it's totally insecure
also IQfy
>lol bitlocker not getting around that even with it's trillion back doors!
which is it IQfy?
>>lol bitlocker not getting around that even with it's trillion back doors!
It's almost like people are individuals or something...
Give it back, Prashanta
give it back