- #HOW TO FIND BITLOCKER RECOVERY KEY WINDOWS 10 PRO PRO#
- #HOW TO FIND BITLOCKER RECOVERY KEY WINDOWS 10 PRO PASSWORD#
#HOW TO FIND BITLOCKER RECOVERY KEY WINDOWS 10 PRO PRO#
If your Surface Pro is displaying a BitLocker recovery screen each time it boots but you’re still unable to find the recovery key, you might have to reset Windows to factory defaults. This information is not exposed through the UI or any public API. BitLocker metadata has been enhanced in Windows 10, version 1903 or Windows 11 to include information about when and where the BitLocker recovery key was backed up. You can either write the key down or print it out to a piece of paper. Example of customized recovery screen: BitLocker recovery key hints.
#HOW TO FIND BITLOCKER RECOVERY KEY WINDOWS 10 PRO PASSWORD#
The 48-digit password is the BitLocker recovery key that was used to encrypt your hard drive.
In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 ways to find, retrieve and recover the BitLocker recovery key for Surface Pro tablet. Surface Pro keeps asking you for BitLocker recovery key at startup? If you’re locked out of the tablet, there is no way to backup your files even if you boot it from Linux/WinPE bootable media, because Surface Pro has BitLocker encryption turned on by default.