Your recovery key couldn't be saved to this location - BitLocker

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Recently, we talked about Microsoft BitLocker Assistants and Monitoring. This technology is a pioneer for encrypting drives at the organizational level. Still, sometimes you lot may face up problems in saving the recovery primal while using BitLocker feature. In some scenarios, you may come across the Your recovery key couldn't be saved to this location. Delight choose a different location error.

No affair; which option you choose from the available ones shown above, it may effect in the aforementioned error. Now since all iii options are giving the aforementioned error, you will be merely unable to complete the drive encryption procedure. This post will tell you how to gear up this problem.

BitLocker – Your recovery key couldn't be saved to this location

1. Printing Windows Primal + R combination and put gpedit.msc in Run dialog box.

2. In the left pane navigate to:

Computer Configuration -> Authoritative Templates -> Windows Components -> BitLocker Drive Encryption -> Operating System Drives

3. In the right pane of above-shown window, look for the setting Cull how BitLocker-protected operating organization drives tin exist recovered, it must be showing Not Configured status by default. Double click on this setting to modify:

4. In the above-shown window, click on Enabled firstly, and now make certain that Allow data recovery agent option is checked. When y'all're washed, click on Utilize followed by OK.

5. If y'all're device is slate; and then you lot need to Enable setting Enable apply of BitLocker hallmark requiring preboot keyboard input on slates as well in the same manner as washed above:

At present close the Local Group Policy Editor; reboot the car and your effect should be fixed past now. That'due south information technology!

Go here if yous need to Recover files & information from an inaccessible BitLocker encrypted drive.

This post will prove you how to modify the default location for saving BitLocker Recovery Key.

An Electrical Engineer by profession, Kapil is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Content Creator. Please read the entire postal service & the comments offset & create a system restore point before making whatsoever changes to your organization.