Bitlocker Lock Out
I encrypted my harddrive with the Bitlocker Program. Afterwards, my fingerprint login froze up. I forced quit and eventually was asked for my bitlocker pin to unlock. I entered it, but was told that it was not correct (which made no sense to me plus it wouldn't allow me to enter the letters to my pin on the screen). My harddrive was then locked and I am constantly asked to enter my recovery password. Unfortunately when I set up all of my passwords, I chose an easy password each time that I knew I wouldn't forget. When prompted to save to a USB drive, I was unable to do so as I didn't have one with me. I just commanded it to print my password, but as I was traveling, I wasn't connected to my printer. I assumed that the password would print out later when I got home and connected to my printer (but the lock out has occurred before that could happen). Also, I hadn't realized that the recovery password was something other than what I had set as my pin. Now that I am locked out, how long must I wait until I can try to unlock my computer using the pins that I chose during the initialization of Bitlocker? How can I get to a screen that will ask for just these pins and not a recovery password? Am I destined to have to reset my harddrive to factory set up? Please help me and I will be forever in your debt! Cocoradiohead
March 19th, 2010 12:10pm

Hi, A BitLocker recovery key is a special key that you can create when you turn on Bitlocker Drive Encryption for the first time on each drive that you encrypt. You can use the recovery key to gain access to your computer if the drive that Windows is installed on (the operating system drive) is encrypted using BitLocker Drive Encryption and BitLocker detects a condition that prevents it from unlocking the drive when the computer is starting up. A recovery key can also be used to gain access to your files and folders on a removable data drive (such as an external hard drive or USB flash drive) that is encrypted using BitLocker To Go, if for some reason you forget the password or your computer cannot access the drive. You should store the recovery key by printing it, saving it on removable media, or saving it as a file in a folder on another drive on your computer that you are not encrypting. You cannot save the recovery key for a removable data drive (such as a USB flash drive) on removable media. Store the recovery key separate from your computer. What is a BitLocker recovery key? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-is-a-BitLocker-recovery-key Thanks, Novak
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March 24th, 2010 5:26am

Is there a way to regenerate this Recovery Key again ?? Any support for that re key generation ??
May 6th, 2010 4:58pm

I would hazard a semi-edicated guess that the answer is 'no'. The ability to regenerate the Recovery Key without credential verification would most likely defeat the purpose of the BitLocker information protection. That is because regenerating the key without the system being able to verify/validate the person's identity/credentials anyone - whether he/she is the owner or not - could potentially regenerate the Recovery Key to any system and thus gain access to the private information that the BitLocker was supposed to protect in the first place.
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May 9th, 2010 4:17am

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