/halp/ - Technical Support

Anonymous 16/10/22(Sat)17:58 No. 22248 ID: 13398d

Hello /halp/

I have a bit of an interesting predicament:

I bought an ASUS T100TA from my friend. I reset everything on it, made a new local user account (read: not attached to micro$oft networks) then put it down. A few weeks later I go to boot into it, and have now forgotten my password.

I have no installation media for it, and thus no recovery disk. It is not tied to a Microsoft Live account, so I cannot reset the password that way either. I went to go boot into safe mode as a last ditch attempt to just hard reset the whole thing, but whomever the prior owner was (probably not my friend, he says he has no idea what it is but I suspect he had some shit on here he wants NOBODY to see) had the drive encrypted with BitLocker, so it requests a BitLocker drive encryption key.

What the fuck do I do to regain access? Beat my friend over the head with it until he complies?

Anonymous 16/10/23(Sun)10:40 No. 22249 ID: a870df

1) Go out and buy Windows
2) Use Windows installation media to format drive and install Windows fresh
3) There is no step 3

Alternately you can just put Linux on it for free.

I'd suggest downloading Windows but 99.9999% of the installers on the internet have preinstalled rootkits.

Anonymous 16/10/24(Mon)11:12 No. 22250 ID: 98214d

>22249 2nding this!

Buy windows
Use *nix
Use Windows without a key

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

Anonymous 16/10/25(Tue)12:49 No. 22251 ID: 5ef9d7

Windows 7 Professional x86 SP1 U (media refresh)17-59183.iso

Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 U (media
refresh)X17-59186.iso

Copy paste name of ISO donwnload iso you need. Look for digital river mirrors.
Download and match the checksum and will
find it. Stay clear of japannese cjineses sites. When you get the checksum just google it or look for a trustable site like ms for lists of
win7 checksums.

Anonymous 16/10/28(Fri)01:59 No. 22259 ID: 5a53ee

>>22251
I thought the Digital River links had all be purged in the wake of Windows 10 and Microsfot's YOU MUST BE ON WINDOWS 10 WHY AREN'T YOU ON WINDOWS 10 FUCK YOU GET ON WINDOWS 10 push.

Ja&!i7szU0EFtc 16/11/26(Sat)22:59 No. 22269 ID: 736c37

>>22250
What is nix?

Anonymous 16/11/28(Mon)09:16 No. 22270 ID: 3836d0

File 148032098222.png - (318.99KB , 1959x1306 , Unix_history-simple.png )

>>22269
any and all flavors of unix.

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