48-digit Recovery Key Required to Access Hard Drive

When connecting my 1TB hard drive to my computer, I get the following pop-up warning:
“Enter the 48-digit recovery key to unlock this drive (Key ID: XXXXXXXX)”
How can I locate my recovery key? I have tried using Microsoft and I have no recovery keys available. Thank you

@noahhamstra this happens when the drive is protected by Windows bitlocker.

Hello SBrown,

Great, I found my bitlocker key but it was on a different account than I had checked previously. Thank you

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