Windows 10: unable to unlock drive locked with bitlocker, although i have password & recovery key

hi,

My laptop is switching off after 5mins of booting up. the service center said most probably the hard disk is crashing & it needs to be chamged, so i wanted to backup my data in another computer. but i have a drive bitlock encrypted. although i have the right password & recovery key, whenever I am connecting it to another computer externally and trying to copy data....it is showing incorrect password.... plz help in decrypting the drive in another computer with windows10.

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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:
Code: c:\Windows\System32>manage-bde -protectors g: -get BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.10011 Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Volume G: [Label Unknown] All Key Protectors Numerical Password: ID: {27319850-4EB5-42AC-9BA5-1C0CCB997EE7} External Key: ID: {A4A49BE5-70A4-4388-8B2F-8C13B1CA765C} External Key File Name: A4A49BE5-70A4-4388-8B2F-8C13B1CA765C.BEK[/quote] I've tried to copy the .bek file to another non-encrypted/locked USB but get:

Code: c:\Windows\System32>manage-bde -protectors -add g: -rp f:\key BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.10011 Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ERROR Cannot specify multiple volumes c:\Windows\System32>manage-bde -protectors -add g: -rp f:\key\key.txt BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.10011 Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ERROR: The operation cannot be performed because the volume is locked.[/quote] I've tried all of the passwords (even blank) I have in an attempt to unlock the drive:

Code: c:\Windows\System32>manage-bde -unlock g: -pw BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.10011 Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Enter the password to unlock this volume: ERROR: The password failed to unlock volume G:.[/quote] 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

 

No recovery key of BitLocker drive

Hi,

I had locked one of my drives using bitlocker.

Then i formatted my PC, so now i don't have password and recovery key to open my drive.

I do have key protectors Password id and numeric password.

Can you provide me recovery key from that??

or else how should i unlock my drive??

Thanks in advance,

Anuradha

 

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?