Seen this discussed, and actually the DOS based bios update tool warns about it, but for whatever reasons the Lenovo team decided not to show that warning on the Windows tool.
As I did not have access to the recovery key due to it being the weekend and the internal IT being unavailable I had to look at alternative recovery solutions. The Windows bootup greets me with the message:
Windows Bitlocker Drive Encryption Recovery Key Entry
Enter the recovery key for this drive
Obviously the big question is: Will restoring to the old Bios version do the trick? The answer is YES.
Now let’s hope your vendor has a DOS/CD-ROM/Floppy disk based alternative to modify the bios, because that is what you will need as you are locked out of your Windows.
Since I do not own a CDR-Drive, I’ve chosen to use a USB stick instead.
I’ve used XBoot for this purpose and found it worked well, here is the process:
1.) Get XBoot and open the program.
2.) Drag and drop your .iso file into it, and in the wizard select: Grub4dos ISO Emulation
Unfortunately I’ve found you can only add one Grub4dos ISO Emulation .iso file successfully.
3.) Boot up the affected machine via this USB key and downgrade the BIOS.
4.) Success? If not you may have chosen the wrong bios version and want to replace the created .iso file on your memory stick with another bios version.
5.) Once you can boot again, Suspend Bitlocker encryption via the Control Panel, re-do the Bios upgrade and after the reboot resume Bitlocker.
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