On a Windows 7 laptop with Bitlocker enabled, is it possible to access the data on the hard drive in another way if the installation becomes corrupted? Normally, I just enter the PIN when I start the laptop, but when connected to another machine, it wants a recovery key, which I don't have.
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You're probably out of luck. Without that key, there's no way to get the data. If there were, that would render Bitlocker pretty useless. When you set up Bitlocker, you were prompted to write down/keep safe your recovery key for a reason. Group Policy can be configured to store recovery keys in the AD object for the computer. If this is the case, you should follow Microsoft's documented procedure for recovering the key from AD and unlocking the drive. If this policy is not enforced in your organization, GOTO line1. | ||||
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