Yes, it is possible to BitLocker bypass drive encryption without the recovery key in some cases. While Microsoft does not provide an official method to decrypt a BitLocker-encrypted drive without the credentials, there are third-party tools available that can crack or circumvent BitLocker encryption...
Step 3: Choose how to backup recovery key. You can save to your Microsoft account, a USB flash drive, a file or print recovery key. Note: You can't save to the encrypted drive. Step 4: Decide how much of your drive to encrypt. You can encrypt used disk space only or the ...
unencrypted mode. Both operations can be done with volumes as attached disks (physical or logical) or raw images; for FileVault 2, PGP Disk and BitLocker, decryption and mounting can be performed using recovery key (if available).
and read from it the cached credentials, which you then use to get at EFS-protected files. With BitLocker, you can’t crack the cached credentials without first decrypting the disk. You can only do this with the recovery key, or from within the known-trusted OS once...