Recently, we talked about
Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring. This technology is a pioneer for encrypting drives at organizational level. However, sometimes you may face issues in saving the recovery key while using BitLocker feature. In some scenarios, you may came across the
Your recovery key couldn’t be saved to this location.
Please choose a different location error.
No matter; which option you choose from the available ones shown above, it may result in the same error. Now since all the three options are giving the same error, you will be just unable to complete the drive encryption process. This post will tell you how to fix this problem.
BitLocker – Your Recovery Key Couldn’t Be Saved To This Location
1. Press
Windows Key + R combination and put
gpedit.msc in Run dialog box.
2. In the left pane navigate to:
Computer Configuration ->
Administrative Templates ->
Windows Components ->
BitLocker Drive Encryption ->
Operating System Drives
3. In the right pane of above shown window, look for the setting
Choose how BitLocker-protected operating system drives can be recovered,
it must be showing Not Configuredstatus by default. Double click on this setting to modify:
4. In the above shown window, click on
Enabled first, and now make sure that
Allow data recovery agent option is checked. When you’re done, click on
Apply followed by
OK.
5. If you’re device is slate; then you need to
Enable setting
Enable use of BitLocker authentication requiring preboot keyboard input on slates as well in the same manner as done above:
Now
close the Local Group Policy Editor;
reboot the machine and your issue should be fixed now. That’s it!
