Indeed and it's always good practice to keep the key backed up somewhere safe. Often times you need to manually enter the bitlocker key after a hardware change

Indeed and it's always good practice to keep the key backed up somewhere safe. Often times you need to manually enter the bitlocker key after a hardware change. This is only slightly inconvenient and exactly what should happen. Popular linux distros being behind Windows on this front is one of the key reasons I still daily Windows.