Setting up a password instead of Bitlocker recovery key

Question

I would like to know if i can set my own password instead of entering Bitlocker recovery key everytime. Appreciate your response. Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, you can use either a PIN (Personal Identification Number) or a password to protect your BitLocker-encrypted drive in Windows. BitLocker is a built-in encryption feature in Windows that allows you to protect your data by encrypting the entire drive. When you enable BitLocker on a drive, you will get the option to choose one or more methods to unlock it.

The availability of these unlock methods may vary based on your specific version of Windows and hardware configuration.

Kindly also see: Using Your PIN or Password

Answer 2

There is no possible way to setup bitlocker to use only the recovery key (apart from the command line).

So I suspect that your problem is the following: you run an MBR partitioning based windows installation. With MBR, the recovery key will be asked for every time when you have a TPM 2.0, even when you set a PIN. So please checvk your partitioning style:

open an elevated command prompt

type these two commands one after the other

diskpart

list disk

and see whether there's an asterisk ("*") below the GPT column or not. I suspect that it is missing, which proves it's an MBR partitioning.