Bitlocker and tablet.

[Jason Gorman1]

I have an HP stream 7 and I want to install an unsigned driver on it , I have followed the required steps to do this by going through the settings and restart etc except when it boots I get

"bitlocker you must enter your recovery key to access start up settings"

"Press enter key or windows key to continue"

This is where I should be able to select force unsigned drivers option however I cannot move forward because I have no enter key to press and touching the windows key on the tablet does nothing.

I have tried everything but cannot move past this point. Plugging in a keyboard to the micro usb port does nothing as well.

Dunno I am stumped here.

It looks like trying to turn off bitlocker is a major process and something I would prefer not to try to have to do. Bitlocker must have been on by default as I never turned it on in the first place.

Any idea's here guys on how to proceed.

 

[xandros9]

I think what I would do at this point is turn it off which will probably be the most painless at this point overall. It's no small task for the PC (and takes a bit), but for us end users, its just a simple switch in the PC Settings app. (at the bottom of Info I think, there should be a toggle)

 

[Jason Gorman1]

Thanks for the reply , I did not even know there was the toggle to turn off encryption under the info setting. Have flicked the toggle now and will wait for it to decrypt which I would say will take awhile.
With some luck I will be able to go through the motions of installing the unsigned driver after this.

Crossing my fingers and thanks for the help will see how it goes.

 

[Jason Gorman1]

Sucess in some regards as after encryption was off I was able to move forward and install an unsigned driver however on rebooting the device the drive is marked as unusable.
If I reboot the device again with unsigned drivers allowed it works but would not prefer having to do this all the time. I wonder if there is a way of making it stick.

 

[Jiffybag]

What driver are you installing?

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[Jason Gorman1]

its a driver for a scanner which plugs into my car for diagnostics via the obdii port.
Works great except for the driver not sticking after the reboot.