Recent content by bitchucker

thanks, that makes sense. however, why would microsoft include a USB drive as part of the machine characterization? that seems like a really bad thing to do.

thank you @ChatGPT, to clarify i did not necessarily think that the EFI partition was encrypted but i could not think of any other reason why the BIOS could not see anything to boot. but it sounds like the act of disabling bitlocker might have fixed up the MBR/EFI partitions and restored the...

Greetings all, I recently installed 25H2 on a new machine from an ISO written to a USB thumb drive. during installation, i short-circuited the microsoft account creation by running the old OOB program. after successfully installing a bunch of needed software, i removed the bootable USB windows...