Bitlocker triggered after main laptop battery drained

[Microsoft Windows]

Hello,I did not use my Dell G5 5590 laptop for about 4 months in 2024. When i wanted to use it, after the initial boot, it said that the time and date were wrong. It was 100 years in the future.My guess is that it happened because of the battery drain.I reset the time and restarted the laptop.Immediatelly after that it was bitlocked and it prompted me for the key.I never knew of the bitlocker / tpm security measure before this happened. I checked my wife's (it was on her email address) microsoft account and also mine, but the device was not listed there. I suppose it was not linked. The laptop

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