However, there’re many reasons that you could be get locked out of your encrypted hard drive - may be your computer’s TPM is no longer unlocking your drive automatically, or you forget a password or PIN. If your BitLocker drive isn’t unlocking normally, the recovery key is your only option. You may have saved it to a file, written it down, printed that recovery key, or stored it online with a Microsoft account.
When you’re setting up BitLocker Drive Encryption on Windows 10/8 for drive encryption, you’re forced to create a recovery key to unlock your drive at startup. How should I repair Windows 10 Bitlocker encrypted drive and access data? Rick Rossor I encrypted a 3TB external hard disk with Bitlocker in Windows 10 last week, today I connect 3TB hard disk to another PC to unlock the drive but Bitlocker doesn’t accept the correct password and recovery key. How to unlock BitLocker drive encryption without password and recovery key?