It may be true that Microsoft has the decryption keys to your encrypted hard disk if you bought a PC with Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 preinstalled, if it supports device encryption (we still come ...

4. Save to a Microsoft Account. If you are logged in to your Windows 11 PC using your Microsoft account, BitLocker can save recovery keys to your Microsoft account in the cloud. By choosing the “Save ...

Where is BitLocker recovery key stored by default? For removable data drives, The BitLocker recovery password and recovery key is saved to your Microsoft Account. You can also print it.

If you haven’t noticed BitLocker on your new computer it may be because, well, you skipped creating a Microsoft account and used a local account. If you did that, BitLocker is not turned on.

Microsoft claims that businesses planning to use Vista together with its Bitlocker hard drive encryption technology will have an easy and safe way to dispose of their hard disks. The software ...

If you have compatible hardware and you choose to log in with a Microsoft account (as both Windows 8 and Windows 10 want you to do), a copy of your recovery key is stored on Microsoft's servers.

The company's support site has detailed instructions for recovering a BitLocker key. The easiest method is to log into the same Microsoft account as the affected PC's administrator in a web ...

Device encryption is designed to improve the security of Windows machines by automatically enabling BitLocker encryption on the Windows install drive and backing up the recovery key to a Microsoft ...