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

Should you miss the opportunity to enter the password when the drive is first inserted, you can also unlock the drive by right-clicking on it in File Explorer and selecting Unlock Drive from the menu.

If you set BitLocker without a password, the only way to unlock it outside of your main PC will be the recovery key, which is extremely long and tedious to type.

To eliminate that risk, use the BitLocker To Go feature of Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise editions to encrypt the drive so that it can't be read without a password.

News. BitLocker Password Exploit Is 'Very Unlikely,' Sisk Says. By Jabulani Leffall; 08/27/2008; Redmond responded on Tuesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive ...

Microsoft is downplaying the severity of a password leakage issue in BitLocker, the full disk encryption feature built into Windows Vista, insisting that a real world attack scenario is "very ...