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Windows does not let you store the recovery key on an encrypted drive.
The rest only means, we need to deal better with our data. All the above basically also applies when you HDD or SSD dies, which can happen any time.
Backups is what you need, not an unencrypted drive.
not everyone is tech-savvy like folks on Lemmy. you can tell that to your grandma or your parents to do that to do regular backup. That is why it could cause a headache for repair business
Non tech-savvy folks aren't transplanting their hard drives in the first place.
No but they’re taking it to repair shops who then find that they can’t recover their customers data because it’s encrypted and then they lose al their photos and data they never backed up, because they’re not tech-savvy.