[QUOTE=petrw1;476530]you must have an awfully tough back-side.[/QUOTE]
Comes with practice.

[QUOTE=Brian-E;473830]My old PC, purchased in 2007 and put into immediate use on the GIMPS project on which it worked faithfully for more than 10 years, never ever giving a bad result and, in the end, spending about 6 months on each double check[/QUOTE]

As a point of reference, 2 DCs per year is 3x slower than my little $50 ARMv8-based Odroid micro!

[QUOTE=xilman;476546]Comes with practice.[/QUOTE]

Regular spankings work well to toughen that derriere right up ... or so I'm (cough) told...

[QUOTE=ewmayer;476624]As a point of reference, 2 DCs per year is 3x slower than my little $50 ARMv8-based Odroid micro!
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Of course that 2007 PC in question didn't run at night, so the given throughput is not representative of the total throughput of a 2007 Intel consumer chip.

I installed a BIOS update today. I knew it would ask for the BitLocker Recovery Key and knowing that i have a printed copy, I was ready for it. Unfortunately I could not find the printed copy anywhere. One of the choices was to go thru M$ to get the key, but I don't have that password memorized and the contact needs me to have access to a computer with e-mail access or a phone with SMS. The phone in the account is a land line (which I need to change) which is my home phone, but I am at work. You can also use a separate e-mail account, which i tried as I have access to that, but to recover your M$ password requires one to go thru a number of validation steps which then needs to be manually verified by someone at M$, which could take up to 24 hours.

I thought I was dead in the water as I would either have to wait up to 24 hours or reset my laptop to factory settings, not a desirable outcome. I discovered that the OS allowed me to access a command prompt so that I could poke around my laptop. Fortunately for me I did save that recovery key to a text file on partition where BitLocker is not enabled. I was able to key and unlock my computer.

[QUOTE=rogue;477332]Fortunately for me I did save that recovery key to a text file on partition where BitLocker is not enabled. I was able to key and unlock my computer.[/QUOTE]Fortunately for you no-one else (AFAYK) had access to that same file previously.

TL;DR: Patience caterpillar. Waiting a day might be the least of your worries.

[QUOTE=xilman;477334]Fortunately for you no-one else (AFAYK) had access to that same file previously.[/QUOTE]MS has the key so the data was already at risk from day one.

[size=1]Storing the key in plaintext on the same system completely nullifies the whole point of encrypting the drive. Also allowing MS to store a copy completely nullifies the whole point of encrypting the drive.[/size] :loco:

He was not afraid of MS, he was afraid of his wife...
(don't tell my wife!) :sirrobin:

Next time go to the control panel and suspend BitLocker before updating the Bios, resume BitLocker after the update. Otherwise I fully agree with Retina.

Jacob

Fortunately I don't have any company secrets that are worth anyone's time to steal.

I also got a new M.2 drive today. My laptop has a slot for it, so I don't need to reinstall anything. The extra disk space is definitely needed. And no, I will not enable BitLocker on that drive. :-)

Not sure how long but after more than 10 years I’ll be meeting in person Paul Underwood in a foreign country called Wales.

[QUOTE=pinhodecarlos;477515]Not sure how long but after more than 10 years I’ll be meeting in person Paul Underwood in a foreign country called Wales.[/QUOTE]I hope you have your vaccinations up to date.

Wales: where men are men and sheep are terrified.

If any Ozzies are reading this, think Kiwis.