Solved BitLocker - Password is known but unable to decrypt

I have BitLocker enabled on a laptop's boot/OS drive. It has worked well for almost a year but it hung when shutting down the other day and I had to press and hold the power button for 4 seconds to power it off. Now when I power it back on, it asks for the password as normal but then it starts in recovery mode and asks for the recovery key as well. Unfortunately I do not have the recovery key.

I know that the password I am entering is correct because it rejects any other password (as would be expected) and only prompts for the recovery key when I enter the correct password.

Am I going to be able to recover my data without this recovery key it is asking for?

Thanks

Hello Dave, and welcome to Eight Forums.

Normally, you should be able to do this below to unlock the BitLocker drive with the password.
Since you are unable to, and do not have the BitLocker recovery key, then you might see if you may be able to use this below to unlock and recovery the drive. It will require using another hard drive at least the same size to save the contents from your drive to though.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you. The recovery tool worked. I had actually tried it already and it was rejecting the password but a second attempt (I think following a reboot) worked fine. Thanks again.

Great news.

Thank you. This code saved my files:

repair-bde F: E: -rp BitLockerRecoveryKey -F

at the second link!