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    The bitlocker encrypted drive won't get unlocked?! repair-bde?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Mikaelft, Mar 3, 2012.

  1. Mikaelft

    Mikaelft Notebook Consultant

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    Day 1:
    Hey.

    I encrypted my usb 500gb external diskdrive with Bitlocker. I did that last week and haven't tested the disk yet. I plugged into my computer today and entered my password but the bitlocker program just hanged... I tried DOS commands and DOS hanged.. I have also tried with different computers. I have also tried to open it with the key.

    Anyway. Today I started repair-bde by typing this:

    repair-bde F: D:\image.img -rp XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXx-XXXXx-XXXXXXX-XXXX -f -lf c:\repair.txt

    It seems like it's stuck on 14%. I will let it continue over night to see what will happend..

    Any other ideas how to extract the data from the disk??

    I use bitlocker on 5 other drives without having this problem before :(



    Day 2:

    Repair.txt is showing this:

    LOGGINFORMASJON: 0x00000027
    Gyldige metadata med forskyvning 2993102848 ble funnet på skannenivå 1.
    LOGGINFORMASJON: 0x00000028
    Reparasjonskontekst er opprettet.
    LOGGFEIL: 0xc0000035
    Can't read sector with forskyvning 67948629504. (0x00000017)


    The decryption is now 100% completed. How to mount the .img file? And with what software? I have tried with daemon tools etc... but I'm only getting error message.
     
    Mikaelft, Mar 3, 2012
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