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Should be: If you ever loose your decryption key to your encryptet data, regardless of OS, you have no way to recover any of your encryptet data.

When installing windows and configure bitlocker you do get presented with the option to create an offline backup of said key eg to a USB drive. The same dialog also give you an option to back it up to OneDrive in addition to an offline backup.

This is a non-story

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This is a story because Microsoft is automatically enabling encryption for everyone without making sure they're aware of that first.

Except this is being forced everybody, including non-techies.

The first version of Windows that started to encrypt the drive by default using Bitlocker was Windows RT 8 for ARM (Release 2012). The first x86/x64 version that did same was windows 8.1 (Release 2013)

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