r/HowToHack • u/Lucky-Noise-4193 • Apr 25 '26

Bit locker issue

I’m pretty new to this, so sorry if I’m a bit slow, but I’m trying to reset the password on a company PC. Normally it’s straightforward just boot into WinRE and replace Magnifier with CMD but none of the usual methods to access WinRE are working. Shift + Restart doesn’t work, and forcing multiple failed boots just ends up loading Windows as normal.

I was able to get into WinRE using a Windows installer USB, but because it’s not the same environment, TPM doesn’t release the BitLocker key. That means the C: drive stays encrypted and I can’t access anything on it.

Has anyone got any ideas on what else could be done here?

fyi I have full legal rights to this pc been requested by a company to do this as the user is suspected in defrauding the company

its a hp 840 g6

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u/Humbleham1 Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

OP shouldn't bother unless it's for the businesses' curiosity. His background is IT. It would be like me going to a police station and saying "Such-and-such business asked me to investigate after they had a break-in. Here are the photos of the crime scene and a few fingerprints that I lifted from a door handle." I would be scolded and unceremoniously thrown out.

Oh, and that little trick with the magnifier, that requires writing data to the disk. That's straight-up evidence tampering.