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Bitlocked Drive Shows As Empty After Re-installing Windows 7?
Hope someone can help me.
I'm going through to search through all the threads pertaining to Bitlocker to see if anyone had a similar issue but no luck yet.
Anyhow:
1) Windows 7 x64 was on C:
2) G: was Bitlocker encrypted
Got a new GPU and went through a bunch of stuff before determining that it was bad and needed to be RMA'd. One step included doing a fresh install of Windows 7.
After re-installation, drive G: just showed as being a "New Volume" that was completely empty when I viewed its contents.
Seems like something went funky after I reformatted so that the drive isn't being viewed as an encrypted drive (at least I hope that's the case).
Is it possible to re-associate the drive somehow so I can try to unlock it with my passphrase? I don't have one of those key files that you're asked to create when encrypting the drive. I do know the passphrase that was used to unlock it and didn't bother with the key file because I know I'd never forget the passphrase.
Possible to get my data back or am I hosed? Tried asking on the Microsoft Social TechNet forum but no help there after 100+ views.
Thanks for any help.