How to bypass bitlocker when recovering hard drive?

Question

Need to recover my hard drive without having access to my bitlocker. My motherboard died and I purchased a new computer. Now I placed my old hard drive in the new laptop (Lenovo) but since I had setup bitlocker and I do not have access to my old job’s email to get the 2 way recovery code I’m not able to boot the new laptop with my old hard drive.

I need to know how to bypass bitlocker without losing data on the hard drive

Answer 1

Hi @poopak mazaheri ,

if no option of recovery a Bitlocker encrypted drive in the Bitlocker recovery guide is working there is no other way.

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Regards Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hello,

Generally, we can refer to the following path to find out the BitLocker recovery key, because this is a personal information, so please kindly try to find carefully if the key was saved in below places:

Finding your BitLocker recovery key in Windows - Microsoft Support

If you are unable to locate the BitLocker recovery key and can't revert any configuration change that might have caused it to be required, you’ll need to reset your device using one of the Windows recovery options. Resetting your device will remove all of your files.

Microsoft support is unable to provide, or recreate, a lost BitLocker recovery key.