After choosing the USB device you want to save the Recovery Key file to, click ‘Save’ and then ‘Finish’ in the BitLocker Drive encryption wizard.

In the BitLocker Drive Encryption wizard select ‘Save to a USB flash drive’ and chose the USB device you want to save to.

In the newly opened window click ‘Back up your recovery key’.

In Windows Explorer, right click on any BitLocker encrypted drive and click on ‘Manage BitLocker’.

This could also be a Windows PE rescue media USB stick. You can then save BitLocker Encryption Key files (.BEK) and/or BitLocker password TXT files to the root of any USB stick. An alternative method is to de-select the ‘Automatically unlock BitLocker encrypted drives’ option in the rescue media Wizard:

Automatic unlocking requires no user intervention and the Macrium Reflect boot menu is able to access encrypted drives without password entry.

Unlocking BitLocker encrypted drives using a USB stickĪutomatically unlocking encrypted drives when PE starts may present an unacceptable security risk for some users. When Windows PE starts any BitLocker unlocked drives that are were attached when the recovery media was created will be automatically unlocked in PE. In the Rescue Media Wizard select ‘Include optional components’ and ‘Automatically unlock BitLocker encrypted drives’ Macrium Reflect can include the components and decryption keys necessary automatically to unlock Microsoft BitLocker encrypted drives in Windows PE. Automatically unlocking BitLocker encrypted drives The partition will restore without a problem and will be automatically re-encrypted on reboot, however, unlocking the drive in Windows PE enables intelligent sector copy imaging and cloning, RapidDelta Restore (RDR) and also free access to the drives contents using PE Explorer. Note: It isn’t absolutely necessary to unlock a BitLocker encrypted drive when restoring an image of the encrypted partition. Batch rename files during copying by template, can also rename. Merge files from multiple source directories or sub-directories to one directory. can use different copy options and filters if required.

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