If you have the BitLocker recovery key, you can unlock the BitLocker encrypted hard drive partition through the Control Panel. However, if your Windows OS is corrupted and you cannot boot into Windows ...

Another Windows update, another glitch. Rolling out this past Patch Tuesday, Microsoft's July update has created a hiccup for some Windows users who secure their PCs through BitLocker. Affecting ...

We noticed a peculiar scenario where our system starts normally most of the time, but sometimes it boots into BitLocker and asks for the key. If we press Alt or any other button to try to troubleshoot ...

Oof, Windows is having a rough week. Only five days after a massive CrowdStrike update-slash-outage made headlines for crippling IT infrastructure all over the world (which, admittedly, is a ...

Microsoft warned customers this week of incorrect BitLocker drive encryption errors being shown in some managed Windows environments. According to Redmond, this known issue affects only client ...

Microsoft is investigating a bug triggering security alerts on systems with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) processor after enabling BitLocker. BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts ...

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To paraphrase Fox Mulder, trust no self-encrypting SSD. As of the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption tool that’s built into Pro and Enterprise versions will no longer assume ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

After last week's Update Tuesday, one of my devices now asks for its BL key with every restart. There's language there that says the config has changed so it needs the key. This is on the Mrs.' ...

Basically, I'm curious to know how much in battery life and/or other performance improvement is the move from software to hardware bitlocker. Any experiences? Thoughts? Longer version: Whole disk ...