Windows 10: Unable to format or remove encryption on unlocked bitlock drive.

Greetings,I have a microSD card with bitlocker that I can unlock with my password and view the files on, but I'm unable to remove the encryption or format the drive. I've tried on both Windows 10 and Windows 11, and I get similar errors. I do NOT need to recover information, I just want to wipe the drive so I can use it for other devices. Quick and "normal" formatting fails, regardless of if I change or keep the file system, with error "Windows was unable to complete the format." occurring each time.Check Disk indicates no errors. I receive error code 0x8007001f when I attempt to remove bitloc

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Unable to unlock USB drives encrypted/locked with Bitlocker To Go

Hey All,

Recently my company provided me with a Windows 10 SOE image as part of a UAT. The image includes Symantec Endpoint Encryption which utilizes Bitlocker for encryption.

I went through all of the motions with the C:\ drive to be encrypted and even printed the recovery key. Well, at some point I plugged in a few My Passport USB drives and they became locked by Bitlocker To Go. Everytime I try to unlock or click on these drives it asks for the 48-bit key which I don't have because I never was prompted to encrypt/lock these drives.









IT says that there are no keys stored on the servers for these USB drives and suggested that this would be a "local" encryption. However, they also stated that they wouldn't be encrypted unless I was prompted about it. So, there's this mystery about how these USB drives came to be locked.


I've been doing some research and the closest I've come is getting some output about the protectors:
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I've tried to copy the .bek file to another non-encrypted/locked USB but get:

Code:

I've tried all of the passwords (even blank) I have in an attempt to unlock the drive:

Code:

When I search my laptop by either the Numerical or External IDs, I get nothing even with hidden files enabled.

Can anybody provide any recommendations here? I can always provide any additional info. Should I also post in the MS forums?

There's so much data on these drives that I cannot loose.

Regards, Jimmy

 

Windows 8.1 PRO unable to unlock Bitlocked drive

Here is the screenshot

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As you can see Drive D is no longer present in BitLocker Drive Encryption.

When I click on this Drive under Explorer I got the option to FORMAT this Drive and when I click cancel I get the following.
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When I do Right Click on this Drive, I no longer see BitLocker option like I used to.

 

Unable to unlock USB drives encrypted/locked with Bitlocker To Go

Hi,

coolguy9000, have you been able to resolve this issue?
I am having almost same problem as you are. The only different is I restarted my computer while the encryption was still running.



I do not have any data in the USB do recover.
Every formatting software i try tells me that the drive is write protected.

Is there how do I format the drive and put it to use again?

Thank you,