If you have used the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature on your Windows system, you might have noticed that when you save the BitLocker Recovery Key, ... Using Group Policy. 1.

If you see This PC doesn't support entering a BitLocker recovery password during startup, enable WinRE, tweak Group Policy, ...

If you're running Windows 11 Pro, Windows prompts you to save the recovery key when you first turn on BitLocker encryption. Windows gives you three (or four) options for saving a recovery key.

When I last looked at BitLocker I dismissed it as it had no auditing options, the new version can connect to Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring so I have been tasked with ...

BitLocker allows you to print the recovery key to physical paper via the “Print the recovery key” option. Printing a recovery key not only ensures the backup is not susceptible to data corruption but ...

I'm a novice in Group Policy so if I'm overlooking the obvious, please set me straight. To reiterate, with the settings like that, the C: drive key will save; the drive no. More options ...

Last time I covered an introduction to BitLocker, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and what TPM does to assist in keeping your system secure. This time I'm writing about the most important aspect of ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive.

There are several different keys to save, and the BitLocker Recovery screen will note several characters to identify which key to use. The final and least common way to bypass the BitLocker ...

Let’s say you use BitLocker Drive Encryption to store your files and you later experience a problem with your PC and need that recovery key. If you don’t have it anymore, you’re toast. Those ...

BitLocker recovery key saved my PC after an update locked me out. Here’s how I used the recovery key from my Microsoft account to unlock encrypted drives.