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  • Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:56 AMCarolInChina Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     

    When I did "turn on BitLocker..." on volume of win7 operation system, I selected "User a password to unlock the drive" and input password then go next, then selected "Save the recovery key to a file" to save, the name of saved file was like "BitLocker Recovery Key xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.txt", but not like "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.bek"? Are my encryption steps wrong? And how to generate .bek when encrypt the volume?

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