Remove Win 10 Pro Bit Locker encryption

Is it possible to remove Bit Locker or unencrypt a drive without knowing the encryption key?

Someone else setup encrypting on this user's laptop and no one knows what the encryption key is.

No it's not possible to remove. You must decrypt. Is this a personal laptop or part of ActiveDirectory?

This is a personal laptop.

It's crypto. If you don't have the key your data is lost I am afraid.

You need to be authenticated as BL is to mitigate unauthorized data access on lost or stolen computers. Without asking password will be deemed as bypass.

Just what I said.

Brute-force not in this lifetime - however - do you have a username and password to log into this computer- that is what I hear everyone asking with no answer?

Seems like a pretty dead end to me as the original poster is asking for a way to remove vs. decrypt the Bitlocker. I would assume the standard ways to access the encrypted volume had failed.

The user is able to login, use Windows 10, and access and folders and files as if there is no encryption at all.

However, when going into the Disk Management console the C: drive is labeled as being encrypted.

We would like to remove the encryption since it isn't needed and we are currently unable to use the Veeam backup software to backup this hard drive until this encryption has been removed or the drive has been completely decrypted.

The encryption might not be fully active but still exists in a way that it impedes and prevents the Veeam backups.

Please see my first reply. You might want to copy the data over just in case something goes wrong by hand.

Since that is the case backup the hard-drive and wipe it obviously something went wrong

Then don't use Veeam.  I know a lot of people love Veeam, but there are numerous other great backup programs that can work.  The idea that you have to decrypt a disk to make a backup work seems totally ludicrous.

Thanks for the accept.