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.
I can’t even adjust bitlocker settings on my laptop’s windows 11 home Installation…
Yeah, you need Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, or Education edition.
Not anymore. Now home has it too
Is this person lying/incorrect? https://lemmy.world/comment/16865866
Unlikely. But, there’s a possibility they are both telling the truth. Since, they could be on a different Software version on their story.
Always the AB testing. All versions are regional and they only try these things in faschist us first where it is safest to assault customers
The what? I think i disabled bitlocker fromsettings on my laptop which is probably home version
Disabling it entirely is possible, but I want to keep the encryption and set a proper password for it instead of the stupidly long recovery key. That and similar features seem to be locked behind the pro version.
Do home versions even come with bitlocker? There might be nothing to adjust
They do and it auto activates when you add a Microsoft account. It cannot be turned off on the home edition as it doesn’t have the full bitlocker settings. Came across this one on some machine i was working on a while ago and i ended up having to pull the SSD from the customers machine and plug it into something with pro to actually disable bitlocker.