Windows 10: BitLocker Recovery Win10 Surface Book 2

I disabled secure boot and was prompted for BitLocker recovery. The prompt provides key ID, drive label and a link. (windows.microsoft.com/recoverykey). Unfortunately, I did not back up the BitLocker key before I changed secure boot.


The only useful option at the link is to my Microsoft account, but I have the common problem of the account not letting me in (won't send me a new code, doesn't accept old one). Is there any other way around this typical Windows nonsense? I've even tried resetting the PC as it's new and I don't care, but it doesn't do anything when I go through the reset process.


Any help is most welcome.

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Win 10 Recovery Drive Creation Problem on Surface Book 2

You can download a recovery image for your Surface Book 2 and use that create a recovery drive:

How to download Surface Book 2 recovery image

Head over to the Microsoft’s Surface support page (https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support...) and sign-in with your
Microsoft Account.

Register your Surface Book 2 if you haven’t done it already. If it’s already registered your Surface Book 2 will appear in the list. Simply select the device and click Continue.

The link to download the recovery image for your Surface Book 2 will appear, click the Download recovery image link.

How to create recovery drive for Surface Book 2

The process involves connecting a USB flash drive, formatting it using FAT32, and copy all the unzip files into the drive.

Connect your USB drive to your Surface. (The USB drive should be at least 16GB.)

Open Start.

Search for recovery, and then select Create a recovery drive.

Back up system files to the recovery drive isn’t selected, and then select Next.

Select your USB drive, and then select Next.

Click Create.

Click Finish.

Go back to the recovery image .zip file that you downloaded and open it.

Drag the files from the recovery image folder to the USB recovery drive you created. Then choose to replace the files in the destination.

 

Missing Recovery Partition on Surface Book?


I received a new Surface Book after returning a broken one. But I created an image of the original drive. I installed this new image on the new Surface and it works fine but I noticed that a drive partition is missing in Explorer but it shows up in the Disk Management.

1. Why the discrepancy?
2. Is the recovery partition what the refresh and restart options uses?
3. How do I know if the recovery partition is functional?

thanks!

 

Installing windows insider on a new surface book 2

I just got a new surface book 2. I want to install windows insider on another partition on the hard drive. I can dual boot on my other machines but it looks like there is something different with installing on the surface book 2 and I don't want to
hose by Win10 regular installion by installing Insider over it. Any suggestions? I posted this a while back on what I thought was the insider hub but can't get back to it.