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HP Stream - 11-ak1020nr

Bit locker key needs to be recovered. Originally purchased from Amazon, is there a way other than Microsoft account to acquire the key. Or reset without losing files.

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Greetings @EW_ 

 

Welcome to the HP Forum.

 

The BitLocker Recovery key would only be available using your Microsoft account or if you did a local recovery key backup subsequent to enabling Device Encryption.

 

I don't use W11 Home Device Encryption (BitLocker Lite) or W11 Pro BitLocker. BitLocker must be disabled before doing a BIOS update. The TPM may become corrupted which can cause a BitLocker recovery problem when using a valid BitLocker Recovery key.

 

No BitLocker recovery key means you will lose all data on the encrypted drive. And you will have to reinstall Windows.

 

Regards

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