Bitlocked External Hard Drive Crash

Zorky

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Hi I was wondering if you could help me....One of my external hard drive witch was bitlocked turned on and off and something happened windows kept telling me it needed to be formated but insted I used partition manager and added a new partition since the old one was gone but the thing is the drive was now empty nothing on it...I have the keys for bitlocker but how do I recover my data ?
 

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MSI
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Windows 7 Ultimate
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Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Motherboard
MSI P67A-C45
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8192MB RAM
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GTX 580
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Motherboard
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Asus and Dell
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SSD Crucial 64gb
1tb SATA Device
PSU
700watts
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G-lite
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G15
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Razer
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DSL 10 MB/S
Hi,

I'm afraid it doesn't look good, if the encrypted partition was gone, and you replaced it with a new partition, then it now well and truly gone.

Post a screen capture image of your disk management screen so we can have a quick look for you.

Regards,
Golden
 

My Computer

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PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Golden Mk. I.4
OS
Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
CPU
Intel i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz O/C'ed to 4.0GHz
Motherboard
Gigabyte P55A-UD3R Rev.1. Award BIOS F13
Memory
16GB Corsair Vengance DDR3 @ 661 MHz Dual Channel (9-9-9-24)
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA NVidia GTX 560 1024MB
Sound Card
Realtek Integrated
Monitor(s) Displays
Dual Samsung SyncMaster 2494HS
Screen Resolution
1920*1080 and 1920*1080
Hard Drives
1*Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD;
1*OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD;
2*Samsung F3 SpinPoint 1TB in RAID0;
1*Samsung F1 SpinPoint 1TB;
2*Western Digital 1TB External USB 3.0
1*Western Digital 500GB External USB 3.0
1*Seagate 500GB External USB 2.0
PSU
Thermaltake ToughPower QFan 750W
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Thermaltake Element S VK60001W2Z
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Corsair H60 Water Cooling, 2*230mm and 2*80mm case fans
Keyboard
Logitech G110
Mouse
Logitech MX518
Drive.jpg


Its Disk 4 Chaos

I installed Easeus Data Recovery and its finding files but will take well over 30 hours but Im not sure I can restore them does not say anything about bitlocked files.
 

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My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
MSI
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Motherboard
MSI P67A-C45
Memory
8192MB RAM
Graphics Card(s)
GTX 580
Sound Card
Motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Asus and Dell
Hard Drives
SSD Crucial 64gb
1tb SATA Device
PSU
700watts
Case
G-lite
Cooling
5 Fans
Keyboard
G15
Mouse
Razer
Internet Speed
DSL 10 MB/S
Please maximise the image so I can see the coloured bar for Disk 4.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Golden Mk. I.4
OS
Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
CPU
Intel i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz O/C'ed to 4.0GHz
Motherboard
Gigabyte P55A-UD3R Rev.1. Award BIOS F13
Memory
16GB Corsair Vengance DDR3 @ 661 MHz Dual Channel (9-9-9-24)
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA NVidia GTX 560 1024MB
Sound Card
Realtek Integrated
Monitor(s) Displays
Dual Samsung SyncMaster 2494HS
Screen Resolution
1920*1080 and 1920*1080
Hard Drives
1*Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD;
1*OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD;
2*Samsung F3 SpinPoint 1TB in RAID0;
1*Samsung F1 SpinPoint 1TB;
2*Western Digital 1TB External USB 3.0
1*Western Digital 500GB External USB 3.0
1*Seagate 500GB External USB 2.0
PSU
Thermaltake ToughPower QFan 750W
Case
Thermaltake Element S VK60001W2Z
Cooling
Corsair H60 Water Cooling, 2*230mm and 2*80mm case fans
Keyboard
Logitech G110
Mouse
Logitech MX518
Golden said:
Please maximise the image so I can see the coloured bar for Disk 4.
Click to expand...

How do I do that it only says click this bar to view the full image ?

Edit: I added attachment to the picture post
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
MSI
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Motherboard
MSI P67A-C45
Memory
8192MB RAM
Graphics Card(s)
GTX 580
Sound Card
Motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Asus and Dell
Hard Drives
SSD Crucial 64gb
1tb SATA Device
PSU
700watts
Case
G-lite
Cooling
5 Fans
Keyboard
G15
Mouse
Razer
Internet Speed
DSL 10 MB/S
Nevermind - I saw the 2nd image.

Easus might be able to recover it, its up to you to decide to try.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Golden Mk. I.4
OS
Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
CPU
Intel i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz O/C'ed to 4.0GHz
Motherboard
Gigabyte P55A-UD3R Rev.1. Award BIOS F13
Memory
16GB Corsair Vengance DDR3 @ 661 MHz Dual Channel (9-9-9-24)
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA NVidia GTX 560 1024MB
Sound Card
Realtek Integrated
Monitor(s) Displays
Dual Samsung SyncMaster 2494HS
Screen Resolution
1920*1080 and 1920*1080
Hard Drives
1*Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD;
1*OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD;
2*Samsung F3 SpinPoint 1TB in RAID0;
1*Samsung F1 SpinPoint 1TB;
2*Western Digital 1TB External USB 3.0
1*Western Digital 500GB External USB 3.0
1*Seagate 500GB External USB 2.0
PSU
Thermaltake ToughPower QFan 750W
Case
Thermaltake Element S VK60001W2Z
Cooling
Corsair H60 Water Cooling, 2*230mm and 2*80mm case fans
Keyboard
Logitech G110
Mouse
Logitech MX518
Golden said:
Nevermind - I saw the 2nd image.

Easus might be able to recover it, its up to you to decide to try.
Click to expand...

If that one fails is there any other program you can recommend with this issue ?
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
MSI
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Motherboard
MSI P67A-C45
Memory
8192MB RAM
Graphics Card(s)
GTX 580
Sound Card
Motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Asus and Dell
Hard Drives
SSD Crucial 64gb
1tb SATA Device
PSU
700watts
Case
G-lite
Cooling
5 Fans
Keyboard
G15
Mouse
Razer
Internet Speed
DSL 10 MB/S

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Golden Mk. I.4
OS
Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
CPU
Intel i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz O/C'ed to 4.0GHz
Motherboard
Gigabyte P55A-UD3R Rev.1. Award BIOS F13
Memory
16GB Corsair Vengance DDR3 @ 661 MHz Dual Channel (9-9-9-24)
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA NVidia GTX 560 1024MB
Sound Card
Realtek Integrated
Monitor(s) Displays
Dual Samsung SyncMaster 2494HS
Screen Resolution
1920*1080 and 1920*1080
Hard Drives
1*Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD;
1*OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD;
2*Samsung F3 SpinPoint 1TB in RAID0;
1*Samsung F1 SpinPoint 1TB;
2*Western Digital 1TB External USB 3.0
1*Western Digital 500GB External USB 3.0
1*Seagate 500GB External USB 2.0
PSU
Thermaltake ToughPower QFan 750W
Case
Thermaltake Element S VK60001W2Z
Cooling
Corsair H60 Water Cooling, 2*230mm and 2*80mm case fans
Keyboard
Logitech G110
Mouse
Logitech MX518

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
MSI
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Motherboard
MSI P67A-C45
Memory
8192MB RAM
Graphics Card(s)
GTX 580
Sound Card
Motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Asus and Dell
Hard Drives
SSD Crucial 64gb
1tb SATA Device
PSU
700watts
Case
G-lite
Cooling
5 Fans
Keyboard
G15
Mouse
Razer
Internet Speed
DSL 10 MB/S
One question for you brilliant people if external hard drive gives and error message it needs an format....How do you recover from that with or without bitlocker protection.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
MSI
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Motherboard
MSI P67A-C45
Memory
8192MB RAM
Graphics Card(s)
GTX 580
Sound Card
Motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Asus and Dell
Hard Drives
SSD Crucial 64gb
1tb SATA Device
PSU
700watts
Case
G-lite
Cooling
5 Fans
Keyboard
G15
Mouse
Razer
Internet Speed
DSL 10 MB/S
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