Microsoft has added new BitLocker encryption guides on its official website. These are meant to explain to users what BitLocker does and how to recover and/or back up the necessary BitLocker keys.

The BitLocker recovery key is saved to your Microsoft Account by default. Though it may be backed up at several places before activating the BitLocker protection, depending on the choices that ...

If Bitlocker says that Your recovery couldn’t be saved to a location and asks you to change it, follow the instructions mentioned below. 1. Press Windows Key + R combination and put gpedit.msc ...

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.

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.

If you’ve ever added a Microsoft account to a Surface device and then run into a recovery problem, you know that a Surface device automatically backs up the BitLocker recovery key to the ...

Microsoft is making a big security change to Windows 11. BitLocker device encryption will soon be automatically enabled in the 24H2 version of Windows 11.

Visit Microsoft’s BitLocker recovery key page and sign in with your Microsoft account to find it. If you set up BitLocker Drive Encryption yourself, Windows prompted you to save and store a ...

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 ...

Another Windows update, another glitch. Rolling out this past Patch Tuesday, Microsoft's July update has created a hiccup for some Windows users who secure their PCs through BitLocker. Affecting ...

We’ve asked Microsoft repeatedly since early May to comment on BitLocker device encryption being enabled by default, but the company has only confirmed its plans through support documents where ...