{"id":2340,"date":"2019-01-05T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2019-01-05T05:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:30:03","slug":"dont-panic-if-the-bitlocker-recovery-key-is-not-accepted-here-is-why-and-how-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/dont-panic-if-the-bitlocker-recovery-key-is-not-accepted-here-is-why-and-how-to-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Panic if the Bitlocker Recovery Key is not Accepted! &#8211; Here is Why and how to Fix!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might panic just as I did, when I tried Bitlocker for the first time with random data and noticed that the recovery key function did not work for me. I decided to upload the key to my OneDrive and went to the according Microsoft Page to copy it from there. But whenever I pasted it into the prompt it was rejected. :O<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/account.microsoft.com\/devices\/recoverykey?refd=support.microsoft.com\">You can find your BitLocker Recovery Keys on this page if you decided to upload them into OneDrive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Why does it fail?<\/h3>\n<p>Simply because on the page where microsoft puts it &#8211; if you just copy it from there you most likely also copy an invisible tabulator\u00a0 character! Check the screenshot below: I pasted the copied code into the notepad! See the blank long stretched empty space in the beginning (yellow) &#8211; this is the tabulator that messes with the code and renders it useless. The problematic thing is that this tab is not visible within\u00a0 the prompt itself!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2341 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/reccovery-key.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>How to Fix it?<\/h3>\n<p>To fix it simply remove the character that creates the space inside notepad and copy the code again. It will work flawlessly then! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"LC20lb\">Bitlocker Wiederherstellungsschl\u00fcssel bei Windows funktioniert nicht<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might panic just as I did, when I tried Bitlocker for the first time with random data and noticed that the recovery key function did not work for me. I decided to upload the key to my OneDrive and went to the according Microsoft Page to copy it from there. But whenever I pasted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,66,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}