Windows 10: Bitlocker recovery key required everytime i reboot when i started to duel boot windows 11...

Hello! Recently i started duel booting linux mint and windows 11 for programming purposes and getting use to the command line but there is just one problem with that.Everytime i reboot to windows boot manager im required to enter a recovery key which i do have but its just annoying typing it everytimeis there any way to avoid this?

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Where to find the bitlocker recovery key if the account that booted the device has deactivated the device from it.

Yesterday i tried duel booting my device with ubuntu 20.04 and my default windows 11 but I forgot to disable the bitlocker as i had previously booted my device with another Microsoft account which i had replaced by removing that account and assigning a new account as administrator. But during trying to duel boot the bitlocker got activated and now which account will i recieve my bitlocker recovery key. Coz my previous account no more has this device activated nor did i find the recovery key in my administrator account. Thank you.

 

bitlocker recovery key

Hi Singh,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

In order to get clarity on this issue and assist you with appropriate troubleshooting steps, please reply with the answers to the questions below.

1. Are you not able login to your computer due to BitLocker Recovery Key?
2. Did you ever setup BitLocker Recovery Key on your computer?
3. Are you not able to login to your Microsoft Account to find the BitLocker Recovery Key?
4. Are you using Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Professional?

Meanwhile, try finding BitLocker Recovery Key if you have ever setup BitLocker Recovery Key for your computer.

Please elaborate on the issue, so that we can understand the concern and get back to us to help you further.

 

BitLocker recovery keys after Dual Boot

Hi Varun Kelkar,



Welcome to Microsoft Community. I'm Mosken, let me help you.



According to your description, I knew that you were asked to enter the Bitlocker recovery key when dual booting Windows 11 with Windows + Linux. Is that right?

According to your description and the current situation, you may have used Bitlocker to encrypt the Windows system partition, but after you install the Linux system, the original system partition state has been changed, so you will be asked to enter the recovery key.



Generally, you will be prompted to save the recovery key when you encrypt with Bitlocker, as shown in the figure below.

• If you choose "Save to your Microsoft account", then it will exist in the Microsoft account you logged in when encrypting.
  

• If you choose the other three, it should be a .txt file with a long name contains alphanumerics, please recall whether and where you have saved it.
  

If you can't find the recovery key in your Microsoft account or the file that included the recovery key, I suggest you try unlocking the partition in Linux, back up your data, and then format the partition.

If it cannot be unlocked, sorry, there is currently no other effective solution to unlock a partition encrypted with Bitlocker, you can only reformat the partition to use it normally again.

The above steps are provided based on the information I have learned so far, and hope that could help you a little. If the problem still exists, please provide us a full PSR from the beginning, through the whole process, and until the error message is displayed, so we can further investigate.



Best Regards,

| Microsoft Community Support Specialist