If you're running Windows, you've probably run into the BitLocker Recovery screen at some point. Here's everything you need to know about the Microsoft program.

Let’s say you use BitLocker Drive Encryption to store your files and you later experience a problem with your PC and need that recovery key. If you don’t have it anymore, you’re toast.

BitLocker – Your recovery key couldn’t be saved to this location If Bitlocker says that Your recovery couldn’t be saved to a location and asks you to change it, follow the instructions ...

A patch is coming, but for now you'll need to enter your BitLocker recovery key to successfully boot into Windows.

When you enable encryption for a drive manually, you have a few options for setting up BitLocker, and one that you should pay attention to is the option to automatically unlock the drive on this PC.

BitLocker Auto-unlock allows the Drive to unlock automatically when inserted into designated computers. Learn how to enable or disable it.

To combat that, device encryption stores a recovery key. For domain accounts, the recovery key is stored in Active Directory, but in the common consumer case, using a Microsoft account, it is ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing some Windows devices to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing last month's Windows security updates.

BitLocker is one of the simplest ways to encrypt an external drive on Windows, as long as you're using it with Windows devices. It's just one of many security features in Windows 11.

You can now recover a PC affected by the CrowdStrike outage without BitLocker recovery keys, at least in certain situations.