If you have the BitLocker recovery key, you can unlock the BitLocker encrypted hard drive partition through the Control Panel. However, if your Windows OS is corrupted and you cannot boot into ...

BitLocker not only encrypts the Windows drive but also external drives. Encrypting a removable drive, like a USB stick, is quicker and easier than encrypting the main Windows drive.

If you cannot access your hard drive due to The drive protected by BitLocker is already unlocked error, use these proven fixes.

When you enable encryption for a drive manually, you have a few options for setting up BitLocker, and one that you should pay attention to is the option to automatically unlock the drive on this PC.