Question

Elliot's computer has a tpm chip, which was used to encrypt the contents of his hard drive. due to a component failure on the motherboard, elliot had to move the hard drive to a new computer, also with a tpm chip. what happens to the drive upon starting the computer?

Answer 1

TPM chips are usually tied to the hardware. Upon a motherboard failure, all TPM data is lost. However, when the hard drive is moved to a new computer, the new motherboard creates a new TPM fingerprint. The new fingerprint needs to be generated to unlock through a recovery key. If the hard drive is moved to another computer, certain conditions must be met for the computer with the new hard to boot.

Note that not all metrics like the BIOS version, the hardware housing that drive, and the correct pin are met. To answer this question, the drive will certainly boot on the new computer but will be stuck at boot up process until the above conditions are met. It will ask for the recovery key and if the recovery key is there, the computer will boot.