https://www.itechtics.com/microsoft-powershell-script-fixes-bitlocker-encryption-bypass/ Making Technology Accessible Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.itechtics.com/microsoft-powershell-script-fixes-bitlocker-encryption-bypass/#comment-438608 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:40:58 +0000 https://www.itechtics.com/?p=100142#comment-438608 Microsoft (support.microsoft.com) reported that KB5034441 required 250 MB of free space in the recovery partition to run the update successfully. Disk Mngt on my system reports that it has 499 MB of 100% free space in the recovery partition, yet this update continued to fail. Suspected reason is that this partition is uncharacteristically, in my case, located in front of C:, but don’t really know if that’s it.
Ran through Mr. Zafar’s powershell procedure. Guess there is no way to confirm that the patch is installed but it ran very quickly and gave no errors. The only problem was with step 11 concerning the wushowhide tool. Guess security didn’t allow it to download. Searching elsewhere, found this also was a reported problem. Somehow found a link that when placed directly in the address bar downloaded! The .cab file is only 48KB. Ran it, but first did not find KB5034441. Ran Windows Update again and it found and failed it as usual. Ran ShowHide and now it found it– was able to hide it. All appears good. Thank you Subhan and Itechtics.
Don’t hold your breath for a fix from MS. Am expecting that many, perhaps most users with this problem will unfortunately remain vulnerable.

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