You can do that. At least all is not lost if you lose that key. Example at http://www.lostpassword.com/hdd-decryption.htm
Nice they are now supporting truecrypt as not long ago when folk lost their keys all files would be lost. Except for the ones they had backups for.
Again, all this is very interesting stuff and having watched too many lose all their files you got to wonder why folks keep losing it all.
Bob
I'm looking to protect my laptop's hard drive with bitlocker.
Before I do this I would like some advice on protecting the key.
I aim to store the key on a usb drive but I wondered if it was posible to copy the key onto another usb drive just in case the original gets lost/damaged.
If I protect the usb drive with a password will it be usable to unlock my drive at startup (for example will the login for the usb drive drive appear to enable me to unlock it)?

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