How to find account associated with a Bitlocker Recovery Key

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My daughter's very old ThinkPad died (likely a motherboard issue), and so I bought her a new one. The old PC won't start at all, so I removed the NVMe drive and popped it into an enclosure so that we could recover her files.Unfortunately, it is asking for a Microsoft Bitlocker Recovery Key.She has no memory of ever getting a key. She logged into her Microsoft account, and there are no devices with Bitlocker Keys associated with her account. I checked my own Microsoft account. Same thing. We guessed that it might have been associated with her old university account, so we contacted the univers

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