Get BitLocker recovery password

Question

I am using the following PowerShell code to encrypt a drive. When I run it's it gives the following output and I am not able to assign it to a variable. It does not seem like a regular output. Any help is appreciated.

Code:

Enable-BitLocker -MountPoint $MountPoint -EncryptionMethod Aes256 -UsedSpaceOnly -RecoveryPasswordProtector

Output:

    WARNING: ACTIONS REQUIRED:

1. Save this numerical recovery password in a secure location away from your computer:

405273-201047-403040-618189-117755-037620-586223-109186

To prevent data loss, save this password immediately. This password helps ensure that you can unlock the encrypted volume.

Answer 1

After you have run that command to encrypt the drive, you can get the key via:

(Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint D:).KeyProtector.RecoveryPassword

You just need to replace the drive: D: with the drive you encrypted. Note though this is only for this type of manual password recovery. In a domain environment its better to backup the key to Active Directory rather than keeping it just as txt file somewhere.