How to find bitlocker recovery key with recovery key ID

Anonymous
2024-02-16T17:29:44+00:00

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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-09T11:44:29+00:00

    I have multiple recovery keys next to my id key which one do I use?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-08T16:30:33+00:00

    bit locker recovery’s

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-08T06:59:00+00:00

    Dear Lei Tao
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    Thank you so much for your guidance.
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    Masoud

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-07T19:57:54+00:00

    I was able to get bitlocker recovery keys for three of my computers. I have printed out the page and was able to identify the computer that I needed the recovery key for. The remaining two computers are identified with device name and KEY ID a set of eight numbers & letters. Is there a way of finding out which of the two remaining KEY ID #'s belong to a number of other (10) computers that I have?

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