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I just went through that and it didn't help much. I was able to make a change that showed me more errors which I then fixed but still now getting tons of syntax errors in the build. I will continue looking at this when I come back to work on monday

I run a shop and I do not want to tell people they made a stupid choice and lost it all, even if that is the truth. I'd rather tell them they made a stupid choice but I was able to get their stuff anyway and next time do not be stupid. Besides, it is something else I can offer clients and make...

this is what happens when I try to build bitcracker, this is on a VM so no GPU really. At moment I do not have a convenient system to install so I do testing on VM

the bitcracker is what I originally mentioned. If you look at the github it is 6 or 7 years old which is very obsolete, plus I can't get it to build.

sounds like the biggest scurge on the planet (MS and bitlocker) has nothing to hack it? can't we rip it off one of the government offices that hacks them? I saw that and it is great for that kind of laptop. The pin outs are not the same from system to system and even the chipset is not always...

You completely missed the point. Don't be sad I do it too if I do not read something fully. I do not need to know how to mount a bitlocker drive, I can do that with the password or key, This is the case we do not have the key or password, motherboard is burned out and we can't access the drive...

I hate windoze so I will not use it to hack, and in these cases you have the PC in hand but can't boot it for whatever reason, most likely lost password to log in so windows out of the mix for both reasons. Or possibly the motherboard is blown. I can mount the encrypted drive in linux using...

since this is hypothetical using some past experience, let us say there are 2 one with each. The idea here is next time I do not want to tell the client "tough luck, next time do not encrypt". I have run into people that lose a password so they can't access the PC but the drive was encrypted so...

I have been exploring Kali. I have two goals, the first one is to be able to hack a physical drive that is encrypted with bitlocker. For this we will assume that the client does not have the password or key to decrypt, lets say the computer was encrypted by an employee that they fired and now...

I agree with you. I get apples in here and I have customers sign a waiver to pay extra parts. Specifically they no longer use magnetic mounts and screws to hold the 27 inch screen into the $3000 imacs. They now use strong 2 sided tape. The very finest in redneck engineering. This means there is...

Dell produces computers with factory installed linux so they are likely an exception. But either way I play safe there and retain the original drive with original installation of OS which I usually recycle after warranty expires.

so not a chromebook, well the error 5 sounds to me like a hard drive issue. how did you check the drive? did you use S.M.A.R.T.? or something else? you need to use SMART on it not a windows utility. SMART will find things that chkdsk, format and others do not.

oh damn, I was not aware it was a chromebook, why do they make these things or more on, why do people still buy these POS's. We need to educate people so they do not purchase land fill fodder. Let me change my previous answer, what you did wrong is you purchased a chromebook

something that most people ignore is the physical health of the system. Before doing the next install try S.M.A.R.T. and do an extended test (about 2 hours) on the system drive. You should be able to run the disk utility with smart in it from the live USB, if anything that says error on it has a...

sounds like you are doing the right thing, test first before you wipe. Windows is very needy especially for BIOS updates. I think you will succeed just remember that 4G is the lowest RAM you want if you are going to use Gnome or anything like it. Try to get it up to 8G RAM if at all possible but...