Last week I had the lovely experience of it also pushing a bios update that enabled bitlocker and locked me out of my drive. I had to completely wipe the laptop and lose the data.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what the fuck

[–] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Exactly. After reading through some forums it sounds like BitLocker may have been enabled at the factory initially but I had never noticed and since I didn't set it up myself I had no key. So anyone reading this and running windows: right click your C: drive and see if BitLocker is enabled. If it's enabled and you didn't enable it or don't have the key then disable the encryption. You can re-enable it afterwords and safely backup your new key so you never find yourself in this situation.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

BIOS update bundled with OS software update is a shitty and scummy move, I hope you don't have anything important in that drive