Why you need BitLocker on your PC BitLocker ensures that only you (or someone with whom you’ve shared your BitLocker recovery key) can access the files on your PC.

A patch is coming, but for now you'll need to enter your BitLocker recovery key to successfully boot into Windows.

You can find the BitLocker Recovery Key for your BitLocker Encrypted Volume by saving it locally, using Microsoft Account or Azure Active Directory Account.

So if you forgot BitLocker password and lost BitLocker recovery key, data recovery software (Including M3 BitLocker Recovery) doesn’t and won’t break into your BitLocker-encrypted drive.

BitLocker-to-Go on Windows 7 --> BitLocker-to-Go on Windows 7 As previously mentioned in my other article, BitLocker has now been ported to Windows 7, and begun supporting portable and flash drives.

This policy setting allows you to configure whether or not standard users are allowed to change BitLocker volume PINs, provided they are able to provide the existing PIN first.

After reports of widespread flaws in hardware-based SSD encryption, Microsoft has pushed out an update that defaults BitLocker protection to software-based AES encryption.

Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data ShrinkLocker is the latest ransomware to use Windows' full-disk encryption.