How to retrieve your BitLocker Recovery key??

if you are not using MBAM and don’t have access to your Active Directory and want to recover your BitLocker key for whatever reason you can quickly do it as follows:-

Open an Administrative Command Prompt and type the following:

manage-bde -protectors c: -get

replace the drive letter c: with whatever drive is encrypted.

you’ll see output something like this

BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 6.2.9200

Copyright (C) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Volume C: [OSDisk]

All Key Protectors

TPM: ID: {37CE71B7-8FE4-4CA9-9637-42516F599C02}

Numerical Password: ID: {31514A2F-147C-478C-B6A2-618CD6F66653}

Password:

249238-002442-716694-646503-010879-234894-155485-185372

To save your recovery key to a network share use the following script

manage-bde -protectors -add c: -recoverykey c:

And below is the script… modify to suit your network share names…

net use Driverletter Networkshare /user:domain\username password

md driveletter\bitlockerkeys\%computername%

attrib -h -s c:\*.bek

move c:\*.bek driveletter\bitlockerkeys\%computername%