How-To Geek  How to Recover Bit Locker Encrypted Disks Should
You Forget Your Password   If you followed our guide to
encrypting your removable disks with Bit Locker, you will recall
that we saved our recovery key to the cloud, which is a new
feature in Windows 8. The first thing we need to do is go and
retrieve that key, which can be done by heading over to this
URL. At this point you will need to sign into your Microsoft
account, the same one you signed into Windows 8 with.  Note that
Bit Locker is only available in the Pro and Enterprise versions
of Windows 8.  Since we are looking for the key we used to
encrypt a removable disk, we may have many so we need to expand
the device that we used to encrypt the removable disk. You can
do this by clicking on the little arrow next to the name of the
device.  Now that we have the key used to encrypt the drive, we
need to actually use it. To do that, you need to open an
elevated command prompt by pressing the Windows key to switch
over to the Start Screen, then typi