Why Is My Laptop Asking for BitLocker Recovery Key? When you find yourself unable to access your Windows PC or the local disks on it because of BitLocker, it might be because of the following reasons.

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.

Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix a known issue causing Windows 10 systems to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the May 2025 security updates.

Windows 11 and old versions of the Windows operating system have BitLocker Encryption enabled on the drives. BitLocker has a recovery key that can be saved to your Microsoft account.

The Windows 10 KB5058379 cumulative update is triggering unexpected BitLocker recovery prompts on some devices afters it's installed and the computer restarted.

Software Microsoft windows update bitlocker How to fix the July 2024 Windows update's reboot loop Users using BitLocker encryption should keep their recovery keys handy By Daniel Sims July 25 ...

I've got about 500 laptops here on BitLocker, having switched from Symantec PGP. It's not labor-intensive at all to escrow the TPM and BitLocker recovery keys in AD as you can make that part ...