It's been over two years since I did this fix. But if I recall correctly you need to reboot and go into "stage 2". Can you reboot and try to do step 2?
HP laptop suddenly asked for bitlocker recovery key after updating on windows 11.
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I just updated my laptop and suddenly got a message that I need to enter a recovery key. However, I have never set up a BitLocker recovery key and I think it was enabled through the update which has now locked all of my data. I have a lot of coding that I have saved onto my local drive on the laptop and didn't know this could happen one day. What should I do? Is there any compensation I could get from this? I bought it from BestBuy a year ago.
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update
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Anonymous
2023-12-02T19:37:49+00:00 still sends back to bitlocker even when it's already been entered
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Anonymous
2023-04-19T12:20:55+00:00 Having the same issue did you manage to resolve this?