Recovery tools and BitLocker recovery
Safe Mode, System Restore, Uninstall Updates, Reset this PC, and releasing BitLocker recovery keys safely.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 45 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Choose the right recovery tool for a problem and explain what each one keeps or removes.
- Find a BitLocker recovery key and release it only after verifying the person's identity.
- Prevent unnecessary BitLocker recovery prompts during firmware and hardware work.
Course outline
- 1.Recovery tools and BitLocker recoveryVideo · 5 min
- 2.What each recovery option doesLesson · 8 min
- 3.BitLocker recovery done safelyLesson · 8 min
- 4.Recovery drives, restore points and uninstalling updates from WinRELesson · 10 min
- 5.Recovery tools and BitLocker recovery: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
- 6.Recovery tools and BitLocker recovery: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.BitLocker recovery screen after a firmware updateScenario
- 8.Final exam6 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Microsoft Learn: BitLocker recovery overview
- Microsoft Learn: BitLocker: Suspend-BitLocker and manage-bde
- Microsoft Support: Recovery options in Windows
- Microsoft Support: Finding your BitLocker recovery key in Windows
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