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jabbarsh
Jan 24, 2022Brass Contributor
Unable to access Bitlocker
My bitlocker password got lost and unable to access. i tried through many ways to generate the recovery key and it didnt work. Mt laptop is Dell and they set the D drive bitlocker at the time of purc...
tmugridge
Nov 16, 2023Copper Contributor
jabbarsh I have the same problem and there's nothing anyone can do - looks like I have a useless laptop. Ironically, the device is still sitting my Microsoft online account from when I first purchased it, but there's no Bitlocker recovery key. I thought it was meant to be an automatic thing, once you register your device and it's in your online account you should have the recovery key. so annoying. Oh well, here's a good excuse for a new laptop I suppose.
Nov 16, 2023
It should be saved to your account. If not, the only thing you can do is wipe the device using USB with a Windows install ISO on it