How about disabling the Bitlocker password? Good? Bad? Even possible?
“How about disabling the Bitlocker password? Good? Bad? Even possible?”
It shouldn’t be possible, since Bitlocker is their encryption method. I have it and like it. It means that if my computer gets stolen, and the bad guys remove the hard drive, they STILL will not get any data off it...whereas with only a Windows password, once the drive is out, its data is available for the world to see. The Windows password still has some value, though, as your network connections will go away once you remove the drive...but the contents of your hard drive are not protected.
So if you have any concern about losing your computer, be happy to have Bitlocker, and use it on portable storage too (thumb drives, external hard drives, etc.).
At least that’s my understanding of how it works...and one of my millennial kids tested it through a back door method for unencrypted drives, and couldn’t read any data.
Bitlocker, I found out about this the hard way, i could not go into the repair mode unless I had the bitlocker key. Had to have the companies IT department repair the computer for me. After this was done I went to my control panel and disabled bitlocker. Got chewed out later for doing so but I just printed out the key codes and later was able to repair myself. Since this is a company computer I leave the bitlocker on now. My personal computer I turn off.
Possible, yes. Easy to describe in a short post, no. If you want Bitlocker to not require a user-entered boot password, you may be able to set up Bitlocker to work with a TPM that supplies the password automatically.
Or, there are other solutions. Here's a start:
https://countuponsecurity.com/2014/06/23/bitlocker-with-tpm-in-10-steps/