Cope with A person's BitLocker Recovery Key.

Managing your BitLocker recovery key is the main part of the encryption process. The recovery key will become necessary for you to gain access to your computer in the event that you forget your PIN, have certain hardware problems like a motherboard replacement or hard disk crash, or even after performing a BIOS update. Without it there's no way to get into your data.

Through the BitLocker setup process Windows will prompt you to save or print your recovery key. As a most useful practice, ITServices recommends that you print your recovery key and keep it stored in a protected location separate from your computer. Bitlocker windows 10 Instead you are able to save to a USB key and keep that stored in a protected location, or store it on a protected network drive.

If your computer is part of ITServices'Active Directory (AD) domain, you will have yet another source of backup for the recovery key. Provided that your computer was joined to the domain ahead of encrypting with BitLocker, a copy of your recovery key will automatically be stored on our servers.