Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption

Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Bitlocker encrypts your drive, not single files. Once the computer is booted up, it’s completely transparent to the user.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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.

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    • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      TPM keys, and without your knowledge

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• WordBox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Every retail PC I’ve seen with win11 has bitlocker enabled. Screwed one over as they forgot their password…

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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

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• j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Did you use Rufus? You can bypass Bitlocker. Or your machine does not have TPM 2.0…?

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah I used Rufus. Always do for every OS install. Explains it lol

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