I've just had the pleasure of experiencing Bitlocker for the first time 馃槴馃攼 Adding me to that very long and ever-growing list of 'satisfied' customers...
It's the same old story: I had never heard of Bitlocker until after I had been locked out of my own machine. This being a Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 5 i9-12900H with dTPM 2.0, running Windows 11 Pro x64.
I did not know that Bitlocker was already engaged on my OS drive C: by default, I never turned this thing on in the first place.
Now it's a big problem because my laptop suddenly died and the motherboard had to be replaced.
Following the repair, the Bitlocker recovery has been triggered and I don't have the key - it's not in my MS account which is an absolutely ridiculous situation - especially since I didn't even set this up in the first place - it was switched on by default 馃く
After spending the week doing a crash course in Bitlocker and really learning the detail thanks to kkamagui I now understand that because there is a new dTPM module inside the machine, it has caused a mis-match.
So the question is, will Bitleaker work in this situation?
The Lenovo BIOS version is N3JET45W (1.29) installed in October 2025, about a month before total failure of the machine.
Any help or advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Many thanks,
Alex
I've just had the pleasure of experiencing Bitlocker for the first time 馃槴馃攼 Adding me to that very long and ever-growing list of 'satisfied' customers...
It's the same old story: I had never heard of Bitlocker until after I had been locked out of my own machine. This being a Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 5 i9-12900H with dTPM 2.0, running Windows 11 Pro x64.
I did not know that Bitlocker was already engaged on my OS drive C: by default, I never turned this thing on in the first place.
Now it's a big problem because my laptop suddenly died and the motherboard had to be replaced.
Following the repair, the Bitlocker recovery has been triggered and I don't have the key - it's not in my MS account which is an absolutely ridiculous situation - especially since I didn't even set this up in the first place - it was switched on by default 馃く
After spending the week doing a crash course in Bitlocker and really learning the detail thanks to kkamagui I now understand that because there is a new dTPM module inside the machine, it has caused a mis-match.
So the question is, will Bitleaker work in this situation?
The Lenovo BIOS version is N3JET45W (1.29) installed in October 2025, about a month before total failure of the machine.
Any help or advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Many thanks,
Alex