Backup BitLocker Drive Encryption Recovery Key in Windows 11/10

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Previously, we told y'all how to recover files & data from inaccessible BitLocker encrypted drives. In lodge to use the BitLocker characteristic, the recovery key is of paramount importance, and you should place it at a very user-friendly location, which you could remember easily. Recently, one of our readers told us that he had forgotten the location of the recovery key for a BitLocker encrypted bulldoze and that he couldn't decrypt the same drive as a outcome of this.

Today in this article, we'll show you lot how to support the BitLocker bulldoze encryption central. When you have a recovery key with yous, turning off BitLocker for a drive becomes piece of cake. So allow's come across the how-to part:

Backup BitLocker Drive Encryption Recovery Central

one. Blazon bitlocker in First search and from search results, selection Manage BitLocker entry.

2. In the BitLocker Drive Encryption window, look for the drive whose recovery fundamental you lot're required at the moment. Click on Back up your recovery key.

3. Moving on, in the following window, you have three options to back up your recovery primal. You tin can relieve it to Microsoft account to a text file, or y'all can impress it to get a hard copy. We chose to relieve it to a text file, which was the simplest bet. Salvage the text file to a most convenient location, which you couldn't forget, for example, My Documents.

4. Once yous have saved the text file, open it, and scroll downwardly to expect for the recovery key. In this way, we've backup the recovery fundamental for a fixed operating system or an external bulldoze/USB bulldoze.

If you wish, you tin also save it to your Microsoft account, provided you are using Microsoft Account to sign in to your Windows eight PC.

Check this, if you receive a Your Recovery Key Couldn't Be Saved To This Location error message. Also, read Why Microsoft stores your Windows ten Device Encryption Key to OneDrive.

An Electric Engineer by profession, Kapil is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Content Creator. Please read the entire post & the comments first & create a system restore indicate before making whatsoever changes to your organization.