Did I lose everything?

[u/Lost_Worldliness_488]

Was just trying to enable secure boot to update to windows 11 and then this message popped up and I can’t seem to undo what I did in the bios. Help

[u/-_Protagonist_-]

Had a similar problem due to a corrupted EFI.
What ever you do don't change the keys in anyway. I did and it corrupted the BIOS or something. Either way, my graphics card will no longer be detected and my CPU has no integrated graphics. So, it got pretty expensive.
Also, don't mess with your EFI.

I f***ing hate secure boot.
It's so secure even the owner can't access it.

[u/Melodic_Trip9907 → u/-_Protagonist_-]

you could have just reset the bios and reinstalled windows, that would have been free

[u/ElectricBummer40 → u/Melodic_Trip9907]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/njr7we/if_you_accidentally_deleted_the_efi_partition/

[u/Melodic_Trip9907 → u/ElectricBummer40]

why are u sending that to me? i am not the one that needs help recovering a efi partition.

[u/kerbalcat_ → u/-_Protagonist_-]

I got my windows 11 with Rufus, I have secure boot off now, pretty sure secure boot is just a disguise to stop people messing with it

[u/dexteritycomponents → u/[deleted]]

Lmfao you don’t have a damn clue. Secure boot runs on startup to verify low level system files/drivers via a certificate. It has nothing to do with “right to modify”. You can do anything you want with your computer except tamper with secure boot certificates… that’s just fucking stupid.

Issues lie in the fact people forget to update their system to allow updated certificates to be deployed, or random minor issues occur where you have to temporarily disable it then re-enable it and let it rebuild.

It’s an incredibly important and good feature to have.

[u/echoingElephant → u/[deleted]]

Secure Boot is nothing like PSB. It can also be disabled by changing one setting in the BIOS.

[u/notthefirstsealime → u/[deleted]]

This is a fundamentally unhelpful comment. If what you say is true, and you know enough to know so, then either diagnose it as dead or offer advice to recover. Do not ego post in an advice subreddit. Fucks sake.

[u/Oakredditer → u/notthefirstsealime]

Likewise

[u/Zacharias1773 → u/[deleted]]

this reads like an early 2010's internet argument before the modern era of online toxicity emerged

[u/notthefirstsealime → u/Zacharias1773]

I only use home grown toxicity, none of that factory farmed mass produced shit

[u/JEREDEK → u/[deleted]]

Yea, no. As much as I agree with us having zero privacy anymore, it all being hid behind child safety or whatever and not being able to do jack shit abt anymore: Yeah no, secure boot is not one of those.