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My hard disk has been locked by bit locker automatically.

I brought a new laptop by replacing my older laptop, I removed my old laptops hard disk and replaced with my new laptop. now on my computer the local disk are locked with bit locker and when i going to open that lock it ask for recovery key. i dont have any recovery key. can any one please help me with this problem.
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Hi

The reason for local disk is locked with bitlocker automatically is that when you got the old computer, bitlocker has been triggered by oem.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/oem-bitlocker
We could remove the hard disk from new computer and insert it back to the old laptop

best regards

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