Difference between revisions of "Bitlocker Recovery Boot Loop"

Revision as of 16:42, 20 July 2017

Overview

If you use BitLocker and find yourself in a situation where upon reboot your computer keeps prompting you for a BitLocker Recovery Password you may have exceeded the max number of password attempts.

Solution

While in Windows Recovery (WinRE) run the following commands:

manage-bde -status c:

If the status comes back as 'Locked' then:

manage-bde -unlock c: -rp <your 48-digit recovery password>

manage-bde -protectors -disable c:

Once you've booted back into Windows, you can resume BitLocker protection by going to the control panel and clicking 'Manage BitLocker'

Reference

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18671.bitlocker-troubleshooting-continuous-reboot-loop-with-bitlocker-recovery-on-a-slate-device.aspx