Hi,
Bitlocker provides plenty strong protection to your drive/data in the event the computer is lost or stolen and its job is protecting your hard drive from unauthorized access by using password and recovery key. If you lost them, I am afraid it would be bad news.
Regards,
D. Wu
Hi.
Let me quote: "Of course, I did not take time to write down, print or save my bitlocker key when i first got my computer" - surely, you may not say "of course" here. Because if you were the person who encrypted, you would have to have saved or printed, because that's mandatory, not optional. And it won't let you save to the encrypted drive, even, only somewhere else. So please try to remember.
However, if it wasn't you, ask that person.