BitLocker Locked? 🔐 How to Find the Recovery Key & Unlock the Drive

🎙️ English Key Notes & Transcript

Just now a user ran in with his laptop and BitLocker is already enabled on it, so when BitLocker kicks in you see a screen like this. You get prompted here to enter a password, and it’s a 48‑digit recovery key. You have to type that key, but I don’t know it right now, so today we’ll see how we can recover it. So how do we recover it easily when it pops up? If you don’t have the key or password here, your chances of getting it back are basically zero, because BitLocker doesn’t let you bypass that. But there are a few chances where we can recover it, so let’s look at what those chances are and how it can happen. So as soon as your computer boots up, you’re prompted here to enter the recovery key, and if you try anything else, you’ll have to enter some keys here. Right? And it keeps looping like that until…. It won’t progress until you enter the correct keys. No matter what you do, it won’t work. So it keeps looping like that. It will keep running, and after that, whatever you do, you’ll see the BitLocker recovery preparation screen, and you’ll have to do the same there. You actually have to enter your personal password right here. So if you happen to not have an ID password available...