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.

Why you need BitLocker on your PC BitLocker ensures that only you (or someone with whom you’ve shared your BitLocker recovery key) can access the files on your PC.

Windows 11 and old versions of the Windows operating system have BitLocker Encryption enabled on the drives. BitLocker has a recovery key that can be saved to your Microsoft account.

This post explains why BitLocker might be missing or not showing in Control Panel on your Windows 11/10 and the steps you can take to resolve the issue.

The Windows 10 boot and shared data partitions somehow got encrypted with Bitlocker (and thus are inaccessible from the Win 8.1 install) after a repair shop swapped the motherboard.

Microsoft concedes that it’s not entirely automatic for some users; if BitLocker encryption is in use, then users will need to enter the recovery key manually, for example.

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to automate updating the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition in order to fix CVE-2024-20666, a vulnerability that allowed for BitLocker ...

I've got about 500 laptops here on BitLocker, having switched from Symantec PGP. It's not labor-intensive at all to escrow the TPM and BitLocker recovery keys in AD as you can make that part ...

Windows 10 users worldwide report problems installing Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday updates, getting 0x80070643 errors when attempting to install the KB5034441 security update for BitLocker.