Recent content by Cay

In the meantime I have positive tidings, that the external drive has not fortunately been encrypted. I attached it my Laptop this morning and as asked me to unlock it. So I did and it works all the Files and folders are there! is there! Therefore I shall not attach it to the Desktop Computer...

Would love to follow your esteemed advice, but I am in a thicker soup now. I went ahead and bought Microsoft 365 and all hell broke loose. MS365 is (activated, the last I checked) but the individual Apps could not be installed, perhaps some vestigial older 365 was still lingering somewhere...

@jumanji Hello! You have helped me before, sometime last year. I thank you all graciously, and now suddenly it dawned on me that it must be due to BitLocker because the files names on the locked drive appear in Blue as that is evidently while these must have been encrypted. unless it treats...

Thanks, but it's not the Bit Locker Key. This is a simple 6TB external drive that's got stuck. It was open and running before installing Windows 11: it came back locked!

Hello Folks, I have been on Windows 10 under the name Bit. I just converted my other Windows 10 to Windows 11. The other one did not have a TPM Chip and is otherwise a good machine. I simply downloaded the Windows 11 iso, mounted it and ran it from that as a drive. It converted and everything...