However, if you forgot your password/PIN or lost your smart card, you can use the BitLocker Recovery key to access the drive encrypted by BitLocker. If anyone tries to access your encrypted drive without proper authentication, access is denied. The encrypted drive can only be accessed with a password or a smart card that you set up when you turned on Bitlocker Drive Encryption on that drive. It is designed to protect your files and data from unauthorized access by encrypting your entire hard drive. It’s better to find out you don’t have the key while you can still access the account, not once you’re locked out, because there’s no going back.If you are looking for a BitLocker recovery key in Windows 11, it might be stored in your Microsoft account, saved to a USB drive, saved to a file, or printed out on paper, etc.īitLocker is an inbuilt encryption feature that has been included with all versions of Windows since Vista. It’s worth checking your recovery key is where you think you stored it, just in case.
Enter it manually, from the piece of paper that you printed. You’ll need to re-enter your recovery key to prove you have it.
Ideally, not in your wallet or anywhere else that can be stolen. You’ll be given a new key make sure to print this out and store it somewhere securely this time.
Verify your identity using a trusted device or phone number.Log in with your normal Apple ID username and password.Head over to and click “manage my Apple ID”.
The good news is as long as you’re not locked out of your Apple ID, it’s easy to generate a new key for safe keeping. Yesterday we wrote of the perils of losing your Apple ID recovery key when two-factor is enabled and many of you wrote to us as you’d lost yours and didn’t know what to do.
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