Yea too many people buying something with a usbc and expect it to just work. Sorry that expensive USBC screen is not supported by your 5 year old laptop. You can either take it back or get a new laptop.

Some people still insist that I just didn’t find the right driver.

On windows if you don’t disable bitlocker, then login at least once to your outlook.com account so it can backup the key.

If you don’t want to do that, install Linux instead.

I do tend to find the native recovery tools for an os to be better suited, so one Linux live cd, and one windows installer or pe recovery tool.