Windows 10: how to unlock hard drive bitlocker if lost all password and recovery keys?

Discus and support how to unlock hard drive bitlocker if lost all password and recovery keys? in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Accidentally, I have lost password and recovery keys after reinstall windows, and i drive is got bitlocker. How can i unlock my drive? it is very... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by ChomreunEm, Mar 21, 2020.

  1. how to unlock hard drive bitlocker if lost all password and recovery keys?


    Accidentally, I have lost password and recovery keys after reinstall windows, and i drive is got bitlocker. How can i unlock my drive? it is very important to me?

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    ChomreunEm, Mar 21, 2020
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  2. MelvinNHF Win User

    how to unlock bitlocker without recovery key?

    I lost my bitlocker password and recovery key, is there any way to recover the external hard drive?
     
    MelvinNHF, Mar 21, 2020
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  3. Unlocking Bitlocker encrypted system drive without recovery key

    A few months ago I encrypted the whole hard drive on my Lenovo X1 Carbon 3rd Gen notebook. There are no partitions. I did not save the recovery key externally, if at all I saved it then it is on the encrypted drive itself.

    Today my notebook crashed (whilst updating iTunes) and during restart I see the error message that Windows has a startup problem. It goes through the auto-repair procedure, which fails, and I'm taken to a screen which asks for my Bitlocker recovery key.
    I don't have that so I try the various advanced options like system repair, but none of the options that do not wipe my data seem to work because they need access to the encrypted drive.

    1. Is there any way to unlock the drive, given that I know my Bitlocker password but not my Bitlocker recovery key? I am not able to actually get to any screen which asks for the password, every screen is asking for the recovery key.

    I tried the command prompt option and entered 'manage-bde -unlock c: -password' which prompts for the password. I enter the password but get the response 'The password you entered failed to unlock the drive'. I'm sure it's the right password. Next I try
    to view the recovery key with 'manage-bde -protectors -get c: -type recoverykey' but the resulting data shows the key ID but not the actual numeric key value (it's just blank).

    2. Can anything be done to unlock the drive via the command prompt, or any other route such as a boot disk?

    3. Is it possible to generate the numeric recovery key elsewhere if the key ID and the password are known?

    4. If I remove the hard drive from this laptop and attach it to another computer as a slave drive, is it possible to unlock it there using the Bitlocker password?
     
    tintomatoes, Mar 21, 2020
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  4. ARC1020 Win User

    how to unlock hard drive bitlocker if lost all password and recovery keys?

    Bitlocker password 256 characters breaks unlocking


    I'm not sure I fully understand, as the link you provided already contains the answer?

    So, even if you used 256 characters for the main password, is there a reason you can't use the 48 character Bitlocker recovery key (which is different to the main password) to recover the drive?

    You can find a tutorial regarding using the Bitlocker recover key to unlock a drive at the following link:
    http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html
     
    ARC1020, Mar 21, 2020
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