Bitlocker Corrupted Drive

xtrymeboy

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I damaged my drive, while I use decrypting my BitLocker encrypted External Hard Disk, due to numerous disconnection because of loose USB port. The Decryption was almost half way done. Now the drive is not shown in My Computer but it is detectable through other O/S like MAC, Linux as Unknown partition.
The data is extremely important, so I dont want to resolve in formatting the drive. Is there a way, I could fix my drive.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Studio 1747
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
Intel Core I7
Memory
4 GB
If you you were decrypting the drive and it failed...then no the data is lost. You might try and use those recovery tools to try and rescues it. However, encryption is not a play thing to be abused. When things go wrong, they go wrong.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
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Alienware Aurora ALX R4
OS
Windows 10 Pro (x64)
CPU
Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz - 4.5GHz)
Motherboard
Alienware Aurora-R4 x79
Memory
4x Samsung 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (16GB 1600MHz)
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Nvidia Geforce GTX 690
Sound Card
SteelSeries Siberia Elite
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Dell UltraSharp U3011
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2560x1600
Hard Drives
Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB, Seagate 1TB Desktop Hybrid HDD, 2x Western Digital 4TB Green HDD
PSU
875W Some Dell PSU <.<
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Alienware Aurora ALX
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Custom Liquid Cooling (EK CPU & GPU blocks) dual EK 480RAD
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Logitech G710+ Mechanical
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Logitech G700s
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Verizon Fios (50 mbps average)
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Server: Intel NUC D54250WYK: i5-4250U, 16GB, 256 GB mSATA, Windows Server 2012 R2
Are you saying that the data is lost completely, with no hope of recovering them?

I also tried to use Bit Locker Repair tool but..

My drive is not detectable by the OS, and I only know the password of the drive but dont have the recovery key. but I can see the drive through other OS and some third party tool.

And I found that bitlocker repair tool asks for the recovery key and I dont have it.

Now When I plug in my drive... it does n't show it, and when I run 'Manage Bitlocker' or 'Disk Management', they hang. If I remove the drive bit locker gives a error 'Cannot find the specified file'.

Any idea, how to run the repair tool in this situation
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Studio 1747
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
Intel Core I7
Memory
4 GB
what if you run it under Ubuntu live cd.

You may be able to access the data and copy it off?
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
OS
openSUSE 13.1 64bit
CPU
i7
Motherboard
Gigabyte UD5
Memory
6gb Gskill matched DDR3
Graphics Card(s)
Radeon HD4600
Sound Card
All onboard
Monitor(s) Displays
HP 2159v
Hard Drives
120gb Samsung SSD for the OS
2 * 1tb WD Caviar Black for storage
PSU
Corsair 750w
Case
Antec 920
Cooling
Aksas Nero
No it can't. It says unknown partition.. and gives option to format it
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Studio 1747
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
Intel Core I7
Memory
4 GB
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