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Bitlocker Process - 2 bek (startup) keys and one recovery key
I don't know if this what should happen but I was watching the process of key storage as I went through the BitLocker encryption process.
To see what was happening on the usb drive to which I was saving the startup and recovery keys I had to enable 'show system files' in order to see the .bek key.* I have seen posts stating that these are 'hidden files'. Maybe they are both? I am assuming that if the restart to check that usb key works succeeds, then presumably the machine is 'booting' from the usb key (.bek file)...?
- Turned bitlocker on the C drive
- usb drive was preselected to save STARTUP KEY
- clicked on save
- ONE bek key created on USB drive
- Question re save location for recovery key > selected save to usb flash drive
- USB drive preselected > clicked on save
- Another bek key and recovery key saved with same timestamp
- clicked on next > encrypt entire drive > run check > restart
So TWO .bek (startup) keys......Does anyone know why two?
One for each partition although I did not yet have BitLocker turned on my data partition.
Or maybe one for the Windows recovery partition?* Although I thought I had read that this remained unencrypted...?