From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 4/14/2025 12:27 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:50:13 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
   >   
   >> But I cannot boot his windows, for that I'd have to keep my old   
   >> Legacy-BIOS box which I don't want to do ...   
   >   
   > Would it boot in a VM?   
   >   
      
   W10 and W11, boot on "stranger systems" now, just like Linux does.   
   Not exactly the same way, but it works. That means a system packaged   
   into a container, and run in something like VirtualBox, should work.   
   You should attempt to match boot type, when adjusting the controls   
   on the Guest setup.   
      
   If there is any sort of encryption involved, and there isn't a   
   recovery media stick laying around in the vicinity, you might   
   need to log into the MSA account on the microsoft site, and   
   fetch the recovery key from there. but best practice is to   
   make recovery media. I would use a floppy for that, as the size   
   required is not large, I have a USB to floppy and the odd garbage   
   floppy diskette in some box, suited for the storage.   
      
   Even on Home, you can check for some kind of encryption. One of the   
   status types presumably available, would be FDE for this (encryption   
   hosted by the hard xrive controller itself) rather than software Bitlocker   
   protection. In an Administrator terminal...   
      
   PS> manage-bde -status   
   BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.22621   
   Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.   
      
   Disk volumes that can be protected with   
   BitLocker Drive Encryption:   
   Volume C: [W11HOME]   
   [OS Volume]   
      
       Size:                 118.73 GB   
       BitLocker Version:    None   
       Conversion Status:    Fully Decrypted   
       Percentage Encrypted: 0.0%   
       Encryption Method:    None   
       Protection Status:    Protection Off   
       Lock Status:          Unlocked   
       Identification Field: None   
       Key Protectors:       None Found   
      
   That command accepts "-h" for help.   
      
      Paul   
      
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