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I have an LG gram laptop. For some reason today it opened to the bitlocker screen. I do not have any recollection of setting up bitlocker, nor do I have a key saved in my Microsoft account. The page is displaying a “recovery key ID” that it says can help identify my key, but I cannot figure out where to enter this to get my key.
I am also unclear on what will happen if I click “skip this drive”. Will that delete all my files or lock me out?
***moved from Windows / Windows 11 / Security and privacy***
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I'm having the same issue now. Just got a new hard drive but the old one is encrypted with BitLocker so I can't access it without the key. Which I don't have because it didn't save to ANY of my Microsoft accounts. This is total BS, why would they impose this upon every hard drive???
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I need Bitlocker
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Try every email account you can remember. I found my code in Microsoft (see link in other instructions) through an email account I haven't really used in 15 years and my laptop is 2 years old.
