How can Bitlocker protect deleted data if used disk space is changed to whole disk (best if on a used disk to keep any deleted data from easily being recovered) to keep old data from being recovered? Some sort of container file or format lock or something?Ī. If Bitlocker was used, and recovery key 1 was used, the Bitlocker was turned off, set to encrypt whole disk, even deleted data, and re-encrypted with a key 2 that was generated and used, will any of the encrypted data From when recovery key 1 was used be able to be recovered if key 1 is available?Īlternatively, if a key 3 was generated, but not encrypted if the encryption process window was closed before encryption process started, and the process was started again with a generated recovery key 4, no data was ever touched in relation to key 3? These questions all regard modern windows 10/11 PC’s with SSD’s with Bitlocker device protection (offered with windows 10/11 pro).įrom what I understand, The master encryption key is randomly generated and encrypted by a randomly generated recovery key, which is the one windows says to save.
