I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R mobo, which apparently doesn't have a TPM on it. According to Microsoft I can use bitlocker by substituting a usb key for a TPM , but I figured I ...

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I have a Server 2016 box with all drives encrypted, with a USB key inserted during boot so that it auto-unlocks itself. I have secondary drives that are also encrypted with the recovery file saved on ...

Turns out TPM wasn't Microsoft being difficult.