Finding a lost Bitlocker Recovery Key
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- This video looks at the options for storing Bitlocker Recovery Keys, and hopefully will help you identify where you stored yours.
Covers querying Windows for your current Bitlocker Recovery Key (if you currently have access to the files on the drive), and the original Bitlocker Recovery Pin creation in-case you can't get into Windows without it.
Referenced in the video:
Recovery Keys on OneDrive: www.onedrive.com/recoverykey
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3:23 Can you please tell how to open that and put the id in because I can't find it
Yup, the OneDrive solution at 2:49 is what worked for my dad's HP laptop when he randomly got locked out, never having set up BitLocker. What a stupid bug, but thank you for helping me save his PC on father's day. I'm the hero :P
Wow, didn't expect to see you here! Love your vids!
How do you find the recovery key once your in onedrive ??
What a brilliant collection of valid solutions. Thank you.
Thank you, mate! Saved my life!! 🙈👏
I am so thankful to have found your video. This strategy worked perfectly. THANK YOU!!!
Holy wow! You are such a hero 💕 Cannot say thank you enough
Your comment was enough Aleena! It always brings a smile when I hear a success story!
Oh my god, God Bless You. I thought I was screwed and couldn’t believe my rotten luck when I got to the point where it asked me for a 48 encrypted key for the bit-locker. After doing all the research for what I needed to buy to remove the NVME card in my surface pro, the usb drive for the card, etc.... you’re a god send!!!
THE ONE DRIVE TOTALLY WORKED! AFTER READING THE OTHER ARTICLES AND NOTHING THANK YOU AND THANK YOU VIVIAN
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Recently purchased a Dell Venue 11 pro 7140 that was pulled from my neighbors works dumpster. I was trying to reset it to factory and got this wonderful bitlocker key that's needed, any ideas on how I go about finding it? Or did I waste my time and money trying to get this thing to work for the past 2 days
Literally saved me from restarting my entire computer and losing everything!! Thank you so much!!!
Please ,Say me What you Did
I'm stucked here
Please
I gave my Dell laptop for repair as there was no display, post the display got repaired, its asking Bitlocker recovery key on boot. Any ways to solve it?
To anyone skeptical of video, it's a great one. He lays out a ton of different scenarios and explains them clearly. It helped me out a ton. It does not deserve the amount of dislikes it received. If you lost the key that is on you, not him.
To channel, thank you for putting in the time to make this terrific video. It was great and im sure the vast majority liked it too. Thank you very much!
Thanks Theurgic, I really appreciate your comment. I put a lot of time into my videos and am glad this video has helped you and so many others. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Thanks for this, really saved my day! Apparently my Surface Pro (2017) came with the drive locked as I was never prompted to set a pass code for this "feature". Only ran into it now trying to do a clean install and got stuck in a bootloop! Thankfully your advice to check my MS account did, indeed, show the pass code. So again, thank you so much!
Hope you are staying safe and well.
This helped quite a lot! I had no idea what I was going in for when I started BitLocker... stupid me. Never again!
Thank you very much for this valuable video.. Really appreciated your support in getting the BitLocker Key.. Well-Done
HI, I installed a new window and obviously can't get the recovery key now, is there any other way on removing the password from my device?
The thing is that I can't run as administrator. When I got this pc I wanted to download music and idk what happened but this very weird sound came on and a notification popped saying about a virus I think. So I created a new account but I don't remember the old account password so there is no way for me to run it as administrator so what do I do?
Thanks. You should make more that type of video. Very helpful short on topic. Love it :)
No problem at all Alex. I'm always open to suggestions on video ideas. I've always promised myself to avoid doing videos for the sake of it (you're never going to see me vlogging here!). I usually drip feed videos out when I do something for myself or to help someone else, that I realise maybe good to share... let me know if there's anything technology related that would be helpful and I'll bear it in mind.
Thank you for your assistance. You saved me days of work.
Thank you so much. I am an 18 year old girl and I got this Hp PC for Mr my graduation. I turned on my laptop like an hour ago to see it asking for a bitlocker recovery key, I have never seen or heard of that before. I was just excited to continue watching an anime o started and was so annoyed and upset and even more so because I felt clueless and could do nothing about it. I followed the instructions countless times, the key was not on my Microsoft account. I was about to just reset everything when I decided to watch a video from the video section on Google. I found this. And I got the key. I felt like crying because I thought I would lose my information so it may sound like a bit if a drag but with all my heart, I thank you. I'm happy again.
Thank you SO MUCH, your video SAVED me, nothing else worked and I was completely freaking out because of all the online classes I need my PC for
What a hero. Thank you so much my friend xoxo
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Hi, I only had Bitlocker on my external hard drive. Now that i am connecting it to a different Laptop (Old laptop not available), it is not accepting my password (PW is correct), how would i find my recovery key? Any help would be highly appriciated?
Solved my problem with OneDrive option; had no idea. Thanks!
I was recommend to Klassichack on iG he held me by recovering my bitlocker keys to my computer she's the best ,,
Very helpful video indeed. Thank you so much.
Your video is hard to watch but the end result is that it worked, thanks
Thank you so much for the reminder that when setting up my computer, that I would have selected a method to save this key...that caused me to remember that I had to recreate a new Microsoft account name/email...and THEN I found my key!!
but where exactly did you find it??
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! THIS WAS REALLY HELPFUL!!!!
Thanks for the commandline for retrieving the key. It is most helpful.
Pleasure Ron. Glad it helped.
if C: would have been the drive , no way you can go to command line access ! I still advise people to print a copy and save it. loosing key is not a joke !
Please help... I follow your instructions to the tee (Commandline method) but it only gives me alpha numeric codes and not the number 48-digit code required to unlock. I feel like I'm so close yet so far. Have you come across cases where there is no code generated?
Hi Luthando, yes I have. The code isn't shown if the drive is currently locked, or you're not using a pin/password. For clarity, this video isn't a hacking tutorial, there are some pieces of software out there that will (very very slowly) try every password possible to get in. The video assumes you have lost your recovery code, but still know the pin/password. You need to enter the pin/password so you have access to the drive for the command line method to work.
If you genuinely don't know your pin/password or the recovery code, you are looking at having to try to crack the password. As skylark304 suggests, Bitlocker is extremely strong, and not a quick (or often worthwhile) task.
Artexic I know the password to the computer but don’t have my recovery key, how can I get the key on the command line? I can’t get into the actual computer to put in my actual password
i was able to recover my system through this video .. thanks a million !!
Got it from my machine using Method 1.... it was OEM and they gave me everything except the BitLocker Key.... I was putting together a disaster recovery kit and bang this stopped me during testing... great work... thanks
To the point. Relevant and clear. Thank you.
I was recommend to Klassichack on iG he held me by recovering my bitlocker keys to my computer she's the best ,,
Thank you so much this tutorial worked 🙏😀
after i put the command in, i’m only able to see the alphanumeric recovery key but not the 48 digit numeric passcode, am i doing something wrong? any help would be appreciated, this bitlocker is BS! i have windows 10 on a lenova laptop btw
Thanks so much, made my day!
Got it from one drive ! Thanks a lot . :)
I keep coming back to those basics videos because I STILL don't know how to properly use the software. I'm gonna cry
O primeiro vídeo que tentei e já deu certo!! 👏🏻👏🏻🇧🇷
Muito Obrigado!
Thanks dude, the procedure worked perfectly 🇺🇲
l love you
how do you start with assuming you're already at windows when your issue is bitlocker recovery key?!
How to unlock bypass I lost my recovery code
did u find out
Well sams club sold me a laptop (the display model) and obviously they forgot to remove the bitlocker password. The purchase was made a year ago. Now my PC crashed and I'm trying to reset to factory settings, it keeps asking me for the stupid recovery key, I have no idea what it is. I guess it was linked to another onedrive which I didn't create. Any way around this without me having to go back to samsclub?
Sir you are great, you just save my life i can say. Thank you so much
No problem at all Sandip. Thanks for letting me know, it's always great to hear when a video helps so much
Generally, I don't write any comments on any post. However, this video has saved my life and help me recover my laptop .. thanks for making this video and it's really useful!! Thanks again!
Thanks Falguni Dave. It's comments like yours that keep me making videos... I love to hear I've managed to save someone the pain of losing their data unnecessarily.
Thanks for leaving a rare comment to bring me some joy! Artexic.
Thx .Nice easy beginners guide. helped plenty!
You are a life saver thank you so much!!!
bro thanks so much, you actually made soft soft easy to understand
Thank you. Windows kept giving me an different URL that did not word, but the second I logged into one drive using your link it work
Thanks for sharing your experience Bertus. I've not come across that situation myself, but great to know the video got you back in control of your data!
Your genuinely good bro thank you
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a lot man! your video is more helping than Microsoft support! LOL
you are not like the others who puts link filled with adds, so u deserve to be subscribed..... thanks for the plugin and all the best for future
My HDD was locked and this video saved my life by recovering all data.
Worked, logged on to the Microsoft using the same email, and they key was there, thank you
I'm looking to get into a drive for my friend. To use the command prompt method do I need to be on the computer the drive was locked on??
To be honest Lewi, it depends. If TPM was used as part of the encryption, then yes you do. If not, you don't.
I'm not aware of any careful way around a locked drive, so check the sources I mention with your friend and hopefully you can get things back up and running for them.
Thanq so much such a great video...🙏🙏
So I was locked out of my computer because there was numerous times someone tried to get in but got it wrong and then it took me to a Bitlocker screen where you had to put the Bitlocker key in but we don't know how to find that or where our dad has put it and he is at work. Also I have a Lenovo computer. So can you help me by chance??
same
I got the orange screen of death at boot , how do i prompt the console ? My sistem does not boot
When i installed a new harddrive in my laptop i pater for Windows 10 home but It automatically updated to windows 10 pro.
I got no option to save a bitlocker key, and Iam locked out of my computer, pls help.
HER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
holy shit thank you so much! i'd been struggling with my older version of element but this one is perfect Thank you so much! I swear non of the other tutorials worked but this one did! ily
Thanks a lot it worked I checked my OneDrive and it was there
question... was able to access the admin window in the first part of this video, but it didn't give me the bit locker key. is that common?
Duaneco99, is the drive you are looking to get the recovery key for, the "c" drive? I assumed this to be the case in the video, though it sounds like this may not be the case for you
OMG!!!...you helped me find my recovery key in just seconds!!!..i was wasting my 3 hrs finding my keys by reading and following the instructions of Microsoft.,and i search here in youtibe,found your video and Viola!!!Thank you so much!..Godbless you more!Your new subscriber❤❤❤
One more thng...your genius!!!
Haha, thanks Merci. Delighted to hear this helped you. Thanks for subscribing and leaving such nice comments. You've made my weekend!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAN. I LOVE YOU. you saved my data. your video is more helpful than shitter help options from Microsoft.
I forgot the password and recovery key, so is there any chance to open Bitlocker encrypted drive again?
So i have situation where the extra drive got locked out. The cmd prompt actually works, but the problem i get is that it is not showing the numerical password. It's basically showing the key, which of course have letters on it. How in the world do i bypass this problems? it's been pissing me off because recently my computer seems to catch a virus and this occurs.
Hi Ernest, I've not seen a virus Bitlocker encrypt a drive before though I have heard rumours of it. If it was the virus, and it used your identity to encrypt the drive, it's worth checking the Onedrive.com (per 2:17), in-case the key was uploaded there. It's also worth Googling about the virus (check your virus scanner logs if you can't remember the name of the specific virus your PC had), as it is possible that someone has discovered a standard password it maybe using to encrypt your drive.
If that doesn't work, and you genuinely didn't encrypt it yourself, then your only logical option left is going to be the brute-force the password. The command prompt option only works when you have unlocked the drive, which you obviously cannot.
I've used Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery before. Using a single computer to crack the Bitlocker password is VERY slow, but may give you an option. They do a free trial version, which will recover some letters of the password. If it's a dictionary word, you maybe able to guess the rest. There are other products out there too, and I can't stress enough how slow this is as an option, but if you genuinely didn't encrypt the drive, then I'm afraid I believe this approach is your only option.
It goes without saying, make sure you have up-to-date virus protection and do a full scan of your PC first, as you don't want the virus to fight the software, or indeed to reencrypt if you manage to find the password.
Best of luck Ernest. Would be great to hear how you get on.
Sir ,all field I can see on the screen except the password the last column I cant see it,so what can do sir
Hi, I'm trying to enter the recovery key while doing reset laptop.But the keyboard not accepting alphabets, it's only accepting numerics. So this case I'm not able to enter the full key. Can you help me on this.
I'm a year late but try restarting the computer. Hopefully this helps someone in the future
Got it! Thanks for your help and explaining so well.
love you brother thank you thank you for much
onedrive worked for me
What to do my recovery key is in the drive which i have encrypted.Is there hope or not.
I'll be very thakful if at least u reply.
Hi Love Area, I'm afraid this seems to be a common topic that appears in the comments. If none of the other options work (the OneDrive one seems to work for many), then I believe you have two options: wipe the drive (losing the data), or look into some Bitlocker bruteforce/cracking software. Bitlocker bruteforce or cracking software literally tries every single password possible. I've never tried it myself, and believe it could take a very very long time (there maybe companies out there that can charge to do it faster). Sorry, but I think they would be your last options if you genuinely can't get it from any of the other options in the video.
@@Artexic the only thing on that drive is my fortnite 😭😭 i cant afford to download it again
Thank you so much broo. You got a new subscriber and like
Helo dear
I don't how to say, but I have the Bitlocker recovery key working but isn't possible recover all files from external 2TB hard drive placed after was encrypted. I need your help.
Regards
That helped a lot thank you!!!
I'm unable to find my recovery key😞😞
Sorry to hear that Ariba. It is possible the only copy of your key was saved to the drive itself, and therefore is not accessible.
If you definitely haven't changed anything (new hardware, or Windows installation/upgrade), then I'm afraid, I don't believe there is any reasonable way to recover your data. If however anything has been changed, you may find that reverting the change will make the original method of authentication work again.
Sorry the video wasn't able to help on this occasion.
Thank you very much!!!!! This was really helpful, the link worked like a charm, had to do it over skype with my girl overseas, because things happen when she has to go out of the country!!! Thank you very mych
Hi,its working Cmd before to use Bitlocker Recovery Key,or in same time ... ?!
Hi Miklos, not sure I understand your question. If you're still having an issue, feel free to reply with a more detailed description. Unfortunately I can't help if you're locked out of a drive that you can't find the recovery keys or original password after trying all the options in the video.
it works for me with the onedrive link thanks!!
I don't the recovery key and also forgot the password for my Microsoft account. My laptop got stuck at BitLocker screen. Is there any hope to find the BitLocker recovery key?
I have bought a windows surface pro3 via rebuy so it's been used before. I have not activated a BitLocker or anything. Now it's requesting a recovery key which I definitely did not save anywhere. Is it possible that it's saved on my microsoft Account (which I don't have access to at the moment)?
Is it possible that it's still the bitlocker of the previous owner even though it must have been reset? If so, is there any possibilty to access my computer again without finding out the recovery key (which would be impossible since I don't know the previous owner)? I've already tried to reset but it's not working.
Please somebody help me, I really need my computer!
Is there a way to display the recovery key in x drive? I can only boot into x drive and see the recovery id and not the password itself. I am also unable to boot into windows
What did you done? Help me pls
yo bro, really thankya. Big respect
Thanks for the OneDrive solution! It worked! I was in panic mode when I couldn't find this key. What the hell is BitLocker anyway?!
That's what I'd like to know too. The best I can fathom is it's a piece of useless software that frustrates the end-user but has no other use! Now I've turned it off it's staying off.
This actually worked thank u
you are the best thank you for useful info.
i didnt save the recovery key anywhere because i’m an idiot and its a personal laptop is there any way to get it
my bitlocker isn't compatible with my version of windows. What's solution?
update your windows or install the latest windows (windows 10)
Thanks you saved my life
You are my hero!💪🏻
I was recommend to Klassichack on iG he held me by recovering my bitlocker keys to my computer she's the best ,,
This is great, thank you!
Thanks a ton❤️❤️❤️You saved my life dude... May God bless you🙏🏼
Solved! Thank you very much!
No problem at all J Nash!
My laptop recently started displaying BitLocker Recovery page, I’ve never set up BitLocker and hadn’t even heard about it until now. I’ve haven’t got a key, as I’ve never used or set up BitLocker. I’ve tried the PC reset and loose everything - which isn’t an issue it’s a small and simple laptop with very little on it.. however nothing is working and I cannot get passed the recovery page. Could anyone help me figure this out? Thank you!
You guys get it ?
Same
Hi Lorna, same. Have you already got it ? Thanks in advance.
Hi - my WD Passport remote drive appears to have acquired a new recovery key as the Key ID is not what I've backed up and not what microsoft has on my account under the listed keys - any ideas on what's happening? cheers...
Hi Peter, I wouldn't expect the key ID to change unless the encryption is changed. I've not monitored it for an external drive, but wonder if you have moved the drive into computers with different versions of Windows. I'm not sure if a move from Win7 to Win10 would result in a change to the encryption (as they run different versions of Bitlocker).
Do you have the password (assuming it is password locked)? You can use the Command Prompt to get the new recovery key, if you have the password to unlock, otherwise it sounds like you are currently locked out of the drive.
If you're locked out, it would be good to know whether you have tried this on the PC that you used to encrypt the drive, plus the PC you last wrote a file to the drive with. Lastly, while I thinking questions... is this drive purely on personal computers, or has it connected to a company PC that may have additional Bitlocker tools running on them?
Artexic - Hi and thanks for such a detailed response... I've used this remote hard drive on multiple PCs (all personal / non-company) without previous problems... the PC that was first used needs no encryption and when the USB cable is connected the folder opens without any password or bitlocker key being required...
However, it's on machines that have previously accepted the encryption key from a common key ID that is no longer accepting the previous Key-ID and instead requesting a key for a new Key-ID...
All these machines run Windows 8.1...
I did just try and open on my work laptop with runs windows 10 and went into the 'shell' (old c-prompt screen) and used the 'manage-bde' command... it revealed an external numerical key which when copy and pasted into the password field (on being prompted for encryption key) produced a 'error in digital group 1' error message...
Do you know what that means and why this isn't working?
Thanks...
Peter, I must admit I've never come across that error before, though I've found enough differences between Win8.1 and Win10 implementations of Bitlocker, that I don't trust moving between devices between them.
I'm going to guess that the machine the drive works with has had "automatically unlock this drive" ticked at some point in the process of usage, and hence why it works.
I can't get my head around the change the key ID, this should remain static. You should be able to run the manage-bde command on the Win8.1 device that the drive works on. That way, you can check that it gives the same key ID as the other devices. If they match, it maybe sensible to change the password, or even re-encrypt the drive, to be certain it is locked with a password only (no TPM) given you want the drive to move between PC's.
Afraid I can't get my head around why the drive worked on all Win8.1 PC's before, and now shows a new key ID, when the original PC is obviously automatically decrypting the drive, so must see it as unchanged.
Good job man, you helped me, I appreciate it, really!
You literally saved my arse thanks 🙏
The link totally worked for me. Thanks a bunch!!
Have a Problem for ya. I already have BitLocker installed on my laptop computer. I use it regularly. (But my laptop did a Microsoft Update today...) Now, when I turn on my computer .... all I 'get' is a completely Blue Screen 100% Blue. So.... I followed my hunch and typed in my password with proper key strokes (without physically seeing any characters - or even the text box - on my screen)...and then my computer launches... My Question is: How do I regain the Normal Written BitLocker Text To Appear On My Computer Screen Again.??
Hi David, this was a common issue on Windows 10 a couple of years ago. It was fixed for most people by opening a Command Prompt with Administrator rights, and executing "bfsvc.exe %windir%\boot /v"
That said, as with all Bitlocker things, before playing, make sure you're system is backed up, and that you have your Recovery Key somewhere other than the PC itself! I've not seen it mandated, but suspending Bitlocker encryption could be worthwhile to discourage Windows from asking for the Recovery Key.
I hope that helps.
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH IT WORKS I WENT TO MY ONEDRIVE AND IT WAS THERE OMG
No problem at all Simoon67. It's comments like yours that keep me producing videos! Really pleased to hear this helped.
Nice Work! :D
u saved my life bro
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Thanks Nazia, I've started the day with a smile as a result of your comment. Always good to hear that my videos are actually helping people!
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