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        12 years ago

        I don’t think I’ve had any customers using it pinless so I’ll just tell you how I’ve bypassed it in the past. Tldr is I use pc unlocker. Boot the computer into recovery and you can tell the computer to boot to a USB. I use PC Unlocker but it costs money, you can use pretty much anything bootable that let’s you poke around in the windows drive and change the sam file so you have admin access and reboot. I’ve done this within the last year on a windows 11 machine and it worked and I’ve done it several times in the past on 10. Why bitlocker unlocks the hard drive without the user telling it to I’ll never understand.

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          22 years ago

          This is why modern devices use a TPM. You can’t modify the file as it’s stored in hardware. I think w11 requires this hardware now.

          Even with a TPM, uou CAN boot it and load it in Linux with the recovery key. That’s a bypass, but then you need the recovery key.