Forever more to be known as Bitlockout
So my personal Windows 11 laptop has fallen for this :-(
Asked to install update and reboot and bang it's locked.
Odd thing is I never knowingly enabled Bitlocker and I don't have a key to unlock it. M$ online help suggests getting the key back from "your microsoft account", and whilst I do have one to purchase things from M$) I don't use it to log in to my computers (they all have local accounts). So the bitlock key is not there.
I have all my data backed up, but reformatting, reinstalling Windows and my apps + getting everything back to the way it was will take a day which is a day of my life I would rather not have spent working for M$.
I will be watching like a hawk to see if the new install enables Bitlocker by default.
Mark
Biting the hand that feeds IT
