Having recently had a negative experience with MS's bitlocker encryption tech (user - the wife - had no recovery key, leading to 100% instant data loss), I'm a bit wary poking at drives setup with said feature.
However, my work PC, administered by local IT, is bitlockered. It's also old and sluggish... Thus, I'd like to rejuvenate its internal SSD performance by running a level 3 scan to wring out that last bit of go.
But if I do that, will I wake up a sleeping bitlocker-dog?
*Yes, I know work-PCs in general are not supposed to be in a 'must-not-break'-state, but real-world experience tells me that such R&D-machines take a good 14 days to rebuild when they fail. The base install offered by IT requires massive tweaking. It's that process I want to avoid.
However, my work PC, administered by local IT, is bitlockered. It's also old and sluggish... Thus, I'd like to rejuvenate its internal SSD performance by running a level 3 scan to wring out that last bit of go.
But if I do that, will I wake up a sleeping bitlocker-dog?
*Yes, I know work-PCs in general are not supposed to be in a 'must-not-break'-state, but real-world experience tells me that such R&D-machines take a good 14 days to rebuild when they fail. The base install offered by IT requires massive tweaking. It's that process I want to avoid.
