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BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable data — Windows automatic disk encryption can permanently lock your drives

An unfortunate Reddit user lost access to 3 terabytes of data stored across two drives when BitLocker automatically encrypted them without the user's knowledge, within Windows 11. With no keys to unlock the drives, the data is now permanently gone with no hopes for conventional recovery.

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