BitLocker is a hard drive encryption feature available in Windows Pro and Enterprise editions. After locking your hard drive partition with BitLocker, you can unlock it using the BitLocker key. In ...

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Microsoft has warned that some systems may boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the October 2025 Windows security updates.

A Reddit user ended up losing 3TB of games and backups after reinstalling Windows 11 because the operating system was lagging. Turns out, the BitLocker security was enabled by default after Microsoft ...

I've had a laptop problem in that it won't boot. The data on the drive is secured with BitLocker. I'm looking to get the data off of the hard drive. Is there any way to do this with some sort of ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

Microsoft confirmed an issue that could trigger BitLocker Recovery on Windows 11 25H2, 24H2 and even Windows 10.

A Reddit user has detailed a distressing experience in which the BitLocker encryption feature locked access to over 3 terabytes of personal data following a fresh installation of Windows 11, a ...

If you encounter a BitLocker Recovery Error with a Trace ID, it could be due to one of the following reasons. OneDrive storage exhaustion is disrupting key sync ...

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