| Captain_Yuri said: I wouldn't worry too much about TPM. My Dell XPS has TPM 2.0 enabled with Bitlocker and it doesn't intrude at all. You can backup files to your external hard drive regardless of whether or not that is encrypted and there won't be any issues. You can certainly use windows 11 while still transferring files between windows 7 and windows 11 via external HDD. The only time there are any actual issues is if you physically take out your internal hard drive/ssd and put it in another device as the point of TPM and Bitlocker is to protect your sensitive data. Or if you want to access Safe Mode and it will ask for your decryption keys which should be backed up to your Microsoft account when you enable Bitlocker or locally somewhere safe. Realistically, you can have TPM enabled in the BIOS to pass Windows checks but don't actually need to use it as it will only get used if you enable Bitlocker with your hard drive/ssd or something else that will encrypt your hard drive and can interact with TPM. My Desktop has TPM firmware enabled but I am not using Bitlocker with it so it's not doing anything however when I tried the Windows 11 Upgrade check, it passed without any issues. Even if you have TPM enabled with Bitlocker, the transition will be like every other windows feature update. My Dell XPS has been doing Windows feature updates without any issues. |
Thanks. I was worried Windows was moving to the awful system of Sony where everything on the HDD is encrypted and locked to the physical ID of the hardware. When my ps3 bricked, all data was inaccessible. So as long as I don't use bitlocker, and my laptop dies, I can still plug the internal drive into another laptop to get the data off.
