How can I obtain my BitLocker recovery key on a clean install?


Windows 11 comes with BitLocker enabled by default. After a clean install, how do I get my key? My drive is encrypted and I can't access it on another machine or OS without the key. Never during the setup process did it give me an option to back it up. I never setup the machine with any Microsoft account. A Google search yields zero answers. Everyone says its linked to my MS account which I never linked.

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