After reinstalling Windows: Bitlocker encryption disappeared, but data still encrypted. How to recover?

Question

This problem had occurred 3 years ago, however, I wanted to ask if there is a way to solve this problem.

This is the problem:

I had a hard drive encrypted with Bitlocker. At some point I had to reinstall my computer, however this made the Bitlocker encryption on the hard drive disappear. But the individual data was still encrypted and I could not open it. The problem used to be with Windows 10, now I have since switched to 11.

The question:

Is there any way to recover the data or is it lost forever?

Thanks a lot already!

Best regards

Answer 1

Hi! Good day , Jerry here, an independent advisor. Here to help you.

May I ask if you already have tried to check https://account.microsoft.com/devices/recoverykey then sign-in to your account, from there you should be able to see you available bitlocker recovery key.

You may also refer to this article below.

https://support.microsoft.com/windows/finding-y...

If none of this is helped, then the you will not be able to recover your files anymore as theres no other workaround for this without using the recovery key.