There are many ways to unlock a Bitlocker encrypted drive, unlock it directly with password, recovery key, or on the command. Here this post will show you how to unlock the Bitlocker encrypted drive from Command Prompt with password not recovery key.
1. Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
2. Type in the command: manage-bde -unlock X: -password, and then press Enter to run it.
(X is the letter of Bitlocker encrypted drive, please remember to change it to yours.)
3. Type in the password and then press Enter. The password won’t be showed on the Command Prompt screen, just type in the correct password and press Enter. If the password is correct, you will get the message that is prompting you the Bitlocker encrypted drive is unlocked successfully.
Here is the video guide:
