I thought I only had turn on the BitLocker and my problem would be solved but when my laptop I wasn't sure which ones I should click so I just enabled it without bothering to change the other settings. However, the TPM in the guide pictures was an earlier version of Tip (turn off BitLocker, activate TPM, then switch Bitlocker on again) thinking it suited my case. But every time I click the button, it would always say 'Something went wrong. Note that I was able to access all of them before I turned off the encryption.įirst thing I tried was to enable the encryption again. To use the recovery key for my laptop but that didn't work for any of the three. Plugged in my two other external hard drives (one of them wasn't even password protected) and got asked for recovery keys too. However, when I plugged in my external hard drive I couldn't open it because it was asking for a BitLocker recovery key. I did that and thought that it was successful because the request for recovery key didn't appear upon start up anymore. I found one saying to turn off the BitLocker encryption. I got annoyed so I searched online for a solution. After that, I would always get asked for the BitLocker recovery keyĮvery time I start up my laptop. I'm using Dell with Windows 10 Home edition. Microsoft community because I was told to ask here instead.

Bitlocker on external drive