So over night, the night before last, my computer suddenly freezes and gives me a blue screen upon reboot asking for "bitlocker recovery key". Never seen that before. So running through all the options it was basically telling me I could only keep my data if I had the "recovery key", it wouldn't let me get on line to find it. I went through every option I could and it kept denying me to get to windows and normalcy. The only other option was to erase and reformat the hard drive but lose all my data.
I didn't want to pay 100 bucks to some local computer fixer to keep my data. Wasn't that important. Most of my poetry is either on a thumb drive or on 1 of 3 websites. The most important data I had were screen shots of celebrities who conversed with me on social media. So I bit the bullet and did the reformat/reinstall. It took about 2 hours with all the reboots and selecting. But then I had to download my apps like facebook, and Twitter. I even had to reinstall "Malwarebites". Basically from start to full recovery was about 5 or 6 hours with getting frustrated and taking breaks as to not have heart attack and slam my laptop on the floor.
I didn't want to pay 100 bucks to some local computer fixer to keep my data. Wasn't that important. Most of my poetry is either on a thumb drive or on 1 of 3 websites. The most important data I had were screen shots of celebrities who conversed with me on social media. So I bit the bullet and did the reformat/reinstall. It took about 2 hours with all the reboots and selecting. But then I had to download my apps like facebook, and Twitter. I even had to reinstall "Malwarebites". Basically from start to full recovery was about 5 or 6 hours with getting frustrated and taking breaks as to not have heart attack and slam my laptop on the floor.
