How Do I Find My Surface Recovery Key?

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Here's How to Find It: Using a Working Pc or Phone Connected to the Internet, Open the the Microsoft Onedrive Recovery Key Page and Sign in with the Same...

How Do I Find My Surface Recovery Key?
Here's how to find it:
  1. Using a working PC or phone connected to the Internet, open the the Microsoft OneDrive Recovery Key page and sign in with the same Microsoft account you used on your Surface Pro.
  2. After logging into your online Microsoft account, you'll see the actual key ID and long BitLocker recovery key number.

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Herein, what is the recovery key for Surface Pro?

For some reason, if you cannot sign in into your System, you can reset your Surface Pro from Recovery environment. Select Power on windows Sign-in screen. Select and hold down Shift and Alt keys on your keyboard, and select Restart .

One may also ask, how do I reset my Surface Pro without the recovery key? How to Factory Reset Surface Pro without Password

  1. Start your Surface Pro tablet. From the Windows login screen, click the Power icon in the lower right, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and click the Restart option.
  2. Wait for Surface Pro to restart. You'll see the following screen.
  3. On the next screen, click the Reset your PC option.

Subsequently, question is, how do I get a new BitLocker recovery key?

To prevent continued recovery due to a lost startup key

  1. Log on as an administrator to the computer that has the lost startup key.
  2. Open Manage BitLocker.
  3. Click Duplicate start up key, insert the clean USB drive on which you are going to write the key and then click Save.

What is the recovery key for Microsoft?

Your BitLocker recovery key is a unique 48-digit numerical password that can be used to unlock your system if BitLocker is otherwise unable to confirm for certain that the attempt to access the system drive is authorized.

Related Question Answers

How do you do a hard reset on a Microsoft Surface?

Hold the Shift key down while you select Power > Restart in the lower-right corner of the screen. After your Surface restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot > Reset this PC.

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How do I bypass BitLocker on Surface Pro?

Question Info
  1. Make sure your Surface is turned off and plugged in, and then insert the USB recovery drive into the USB port.
  2. Press and hold the volume-down button while you press and release the power button.
  3. When the Surface logo appears, release the volume button.
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