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Should you be extremely lucky, the “recovery” method which might allow you to go back to a BIOS which interacts correctly should you determine an update was the cause. Note by posting this I’m NOT diagnosing it as a BIOS issue but as I understand just how deep the hole you are in is, so any way you can potentially claw your way out, however unlikely, might help. On some newer Dell, the BIOS image is saved in a folder on the UEFI boot partition and isn’t cleaned up until the OS boots to desktop. Could also be informative to see what version the BIOS is while you’re in there as the problem could also be brought on by a flaky Windows drive. as if the setting is not set you always get the bitlocker prompt which you need if you need to be using a boot time PIN on a machine with the setting. Unfortunately this hole is deep – there’s no way to access the drive to resolve whatever is placing it in recovery mode BUT I would guess the relevant BIOS setting might have toggled so if you have never been in the BIOS settings maybe use F2 to access the bios settings, locate and use the load optimised defaults option, then save and exit. Strange thing is when it does I have seen the given release isn’t always the latest so I guess the other possibility is Dell’s update process hooked the latest update, and Windows update decided not to suspend bitlocker as it queued an older version not changing the policy in the windows update queue. Would be interesting to see is WU is releasing a BIOS update (which definitely happens – seen it) to fix any of CVE-2021-21551,CVE-2021-21571,CVE-2021-21572, CVE-2021-21573, and CVE-2021-21574.and they haven’t remembered that it needs suspending. “Suspend BitLocker (required for devices bound to PCR only if the firmware update changes the Secure Boot policy)” Under “Applying firmware updates to devices” says