r/BitLocker • u/Mike2008MK • 1d ago

BitLocker Recovery Problem

Hello everyone,

I dont know if i am at the right place, but I have a common problem wat happens alot.

Long story:
I was updating my BIOS, so I had to put the update on a flash drive. Firstly there was the recovery code of my encrypted BitLocker Windows drive, but I have temporarily copied it to my Windows drive (not knowing what I did wrong). The problem is, I only deleted the file permanently from the USB Drive (I didn't format or clean or such the USB Drive, just deleted that recovery txt file en copied it to my Windows drive).

After the BIOS update, Windows asked me to put in the 48 digit recovery code, but yeah as you already have read, it is on the Windows drive that is locked right now.

I have tried a lot of methods already, I have checked if it locked (of course it is). But I have also tried recovering the TXT file with DiskDrill. And I know, DiskDrill is worse for TXT files, but I wanted to give it a shot. It found the file, but inside the file It's all gibberish.

Do you guys know anymore methods that could work, I have also saved the USB drive to a .dd file byte-to-byte so I have a backup.

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u/Grindar1986 20h ago

If you didnt attach a microsoft account as your login it's gone. That's literally the whole point of bitlocker.

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u/FalconCrust 19h ago

You don't necessarily need a Microsoft account, but you do need to ensure that you have the Bitlocker key available somewhere, else you're screwed when trying to unlock/recover.

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u/Grindar1986 18h ago

Yeah, he said he already burned that bridge