How to save the key in a flash drive? It’s simple, you just have a file, it could be a text or word file, and copy the file into the flash drive. One of the three options offered during the Bitlocker installation to save the recovery key is saving it to a flash drive, the other two are the above-mentioned ones. Do you know what would be even more embarrassing? Losing the printout of your recovery key. While it might seem like an embarrassing thing to print out a key on a piece of paper, it is a smart move. No one is going to call you a grandpa/grandma for printing out your recovery key. Also, if the device has multiple accounts, then try checking the other accounts for the recovery key.
You can even log in to your account from other devices and look for the key. So absent-minded users can log in to their Microsoft accounts and look for the saved recovery key. That’s because the tool provides an option to save the recovery key in the Microsoft account at the time of installing it. Let me clear one thing, if you do not have a Microsoft account, then I suggest you create one. For a little similar information, check the aka.ms/recoverykeyfaq, which is the official Microsoft page on the same issue – The Usual Microsoft Account But for an in-depth explanation of the process that goes into the recovery process, here I am with a better explanation. I have already provided the answer to how to get the recovery key. So if you have something important locked up in those drives, then get the recovery to unlock it.
Just to stress the fact for some people, without the recovery key you cannot unlock your encrypted drives when you misplaced your login credentials or if the password isn’t working. This pretty much sums up what the Bitlocker key is and why you need it. I know a few of you will try using the above key, just know that I’m laughing at you right now. Now some of you might still be confused as to how the recovery key would look like.
The software then asks you to save this recovery key, for which 3 different options are provided. Just to provide a backup way to recover your account in case you lose your login credentials. This recovery key is provided to the users at the time of installation of the encryption tool. Every product that uses Bitlocker has a unique 48-bit digit key for recovery. What Is the Bitlocker Recovery Key?Īs I have previously mentioned, the recovery key is used to get a locked drive with a 48-bit key. If you want to skip all this and just head right into the recovery key step, then check out the aka.ms/recoverykeyfaq. We will also learn about its customer spectrum and a few other things. We will discuss these in the following sections after we have learned a little more about the importance of the Bitlocker tool. There are a few other options that we can try. For example, Windows Vista, 7, 8.1, and 10 allow the user to save it as a file on the device’s drive, a flash drive, or also on the cloud storage as a file.
Similarly, there are few other methods on different devices. If you did save it, you just have to find the printout and get your recovery key. When the tool is installed, the Bitlocker recovery key will be provided, which you might have saved on a printout. The aka.ms/recoverykeyfaq is a link that leaders to you to attempt recovery. But for the most part, the recovery key process for Bitclocker is pretty straightforward. For some, it might not be a piece of cake.