In fact, many Windows 11 users may not even realize that their PC is encrypted—nor that the recovery key is also automatically saved to your Microsoft account.

You can find the BitLocker Recovery Key for your BitLocker Encrypted Volume by saving it locally, using Microsoft Account or Azure Active Directory Account.

You can delete the BitLocker recovery key from your Microsoft Account (OneDrive) by following the procedure laid down in this post.

July's Windows security update has a bug that can cause your PC to show the BitLocker recovery screen when booting up.

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The China-based company is shipping free recovery media for affected customers that will contain an image of the Windows OS and preloaded software, but not Superfish.

Unfortunately, the removal of the Windows recovery drive isn’t straight forward. With standard partitions, you can simply right-click on them from the Windows Disk Management tool and choose delete.