How to Save or Recover Your BitLocker Recovery Key

❌ BitLocker could be running on your PC without your knowledge. Without the recovery key, you risk losing everything. I'll show you three ways to check, find, and save your key. ❌ Finding your BitLocker recovery key You can find your BitLocker Recovery key: When you enable BitLocker yourself. In your Microsoft account online. By copying it from the “Manage BitLocker” interface. Via the “manage-bde” command-line tool. Regardless of how you get it, save it somewhere safe. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/136189 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ How Do I Know If My Hard Disk Is BitLocker-Encrypted? ▶    • How Do I Know If My Hard Disk Is BitLocker...   Chapters 0:00 Save or Recover Your BitLocker Recovery Key 0:40 Traditional BitLocker setup 1:20 Bitlocker on by default 2:00 Three ways to find it and save it 2:07 Use your Microsoft account 4:35 Windows File Explorer: back up your recovery key 6:45 The Command Prompt: Windows Home or Pro ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-... for even more! #askleo #bitlocker #key