Recovering a Bitlocker Encrypted Drive
Posted
Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:47 AM
by
sdeming
Q: (from Iggy)
How do you recover the data from a Bitlocker secured drive if the motherboard fails or the system owner is not available to provide the password?
A:
For support staff to have access to a Bitlocker encrypted drive, systems on a domain, store their public key in Active Directory. System not on a domain store their public key on a USB memory stick. The public key can be used by system administrators to unlock an encrypted drive on a new physical system. Detailed information can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/bittech.mspx