The second and most common way to bypass the BitLocker Recovery screen is using a recovery key. This key is 48 digits long and can be found in whichever source you used to activate BitLocker.

Ubuntu has released details on hardware encryption, which is currently in testing. The features appear to be really cool and ...

A Microsoft account is more than a method to sign in. In this guide, I'll show you several ways the service works behind the scenes on Windows 11, including managing devices, storing recovery keys, ...

EaseUS Software is a technology company specializing in data recovery, backup, and disk management solutions. It recently announced that its EaseUS Partition Master, recognized as one of the ...

In some documents I've seen the recovery password stored on a USB device referred to as the recovery key. Whatever it's called, it's essentially the same thing – the string of numbers needed to get ...

The latest news about BitLocker RecoveryWindows 10 emergency updates fix BitLocker recovery issues Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix a known issue causing Windows 10 systems to ...

It’s an odd one, too, and what’s happening is that the BitLocker recovery screen is being presented to some users after booting up their devices, which must come as a bit of a nasty shock to ...

But the BitLocker bug is also about as painless as a cryptography failure could be (you don't lose any files, just time and patience), because the recovery key is automatically stored in SkyDrive ...

We've been deploying BitLocker on our laptops for almost two years now, setting Group Policy to escrow the TPM and BitLocker recovery keys in the AD computer object.