[General Questions and Answers] Chinmay47:
Laptop - Dell Inspiron 15 3567, i3 6th gen, 4GB RAM (later upgraded to 8 GB) 1TB HDD (with only one partition, OS C: ), Windows 10 Home Single Language.

Background - I was using my laptop 4 days ago to read my notes for my upcoming exams. The built-in keyboard started behaving weirdly all of a sudden. Apparently, all the other keys on the keyboard somehow got attached to the Enter key. As soon as I pressed a key it shifted me to a new line with the simultaneous press of the Enter key. It made it so difficult to even type my password that I decided to detach it from the back. This mishap has been faced by my keyboard previously as well. But back then only a specific set of keys stopped working or they combined with each other. This time though, the entire keyboard got attached to my Enter key, even the NumPad on the right side. This problem almost always gets fixed when I perform a system restore, which I've set up a trigger for in my laptop that makes automatic restore points every Wednesday [Task Scheduler]. The keyboard thing happened on 25th Sep and luckily, I had a restore point from 3 days back i.e. 22nd Sep. So as always, I did the system restore, waited for an hour+, and the system restore was done. The laptop opened up and displayed the message, "System has been successfully restored to Sep 22 2021. Your files and documents were not affected". Now my laptop lags a lot after a system restore so I quickly did a hard reboot and that's when it happened. When the laptop initiated booting it got stuck in the Bitlocker Auto Recovery Loop. It asked me to type in the Bitlocker Recovery Key which I am dead sure, I never set up by myself. I rebooted it quite a lot of times but to no avail, which made sure that something had gone wrong. Since then I have attempted quite a lot of fixes for it, despite knowing the fact that Bitlocker is prolly one of the most secure and powerful drive encryption systems in the world. The fixes have yielded me no good but have provided me with quite a lot of info about the issue.

Fixes I have already tried/didn't work -

1. I have tried looking up my Microsoft account for any Bitlocker keys as suggested by a few on the web. The Bitlocker section in my account shows the message, "There are no Bitlocker Keys uploaded to your Microsoft account.".

2. I have tried various cmd commands in the Command Prompt interface the Recovery Advanced Options provide. I found these commands from different sources on the web but none of them did any good to my situation or even helped me out with something in that relation. Here are some commands that I tried-

bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot
bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy
bcdedit /set {default} safebootalternateshell yes

manage-bde -off C:
manage-bde -protectors -get C:
manage-bde -unlock C: -pw

BOOTREC /FIXMBR
BOOTREC /FIXBOOT
BOOTREC /RebuildBcd

There were a lot more commands I tried but these are some I remember.

3. I have tried making a bootable USB drive with the Hiren's Boot CD/DVD PE. As soon as the laptop powers on, I spam the F12 key which takes me to the Boot Menu. From there I select my USB drive as the booting device and it loads me into the HBCD environment as expected. But since the environment is working in the system itself, it does not have access to anything that the system contains. So all the above mentioned commands don't work in the same as well.

4. I have tried using the WinImage tool in the HBCD environment to at least create an image of my original drive into an external 1TB drive that I own. But again, since HBCD lacks system access, it does not let me install any third party softwares into it.

Fixes I have researched/am willing to try/have given thoughts to -

1. I was suggested by some Microsoft chat support agents, the use of a bootable installation media USB drive to install a temporary copy of Windows. This, according to them, won't get my files deleted and would be helpful. However during my researches of the same, I found out that there is quite a good chance of data loss from my PC which, in any case whatsoever, I don't want.

2. I have thought of physically removing the original affected drive, using it with another computer and then making an image out of it. Now this image can be used for any Bitlocker cracking purposes by any agency that would be willing to do so. The only concern I have is that the original data shouldn't be lost, instead an image could be used for all purposes related to the cracking of the Bitlocker. I am not sure if this is gonna work though.

I need help, urgent help!

Please contact me in my pm here if anyone has knowledge about cracking bitlockers and is willing to help me out.​