BitLocker Drive Encryption - Unlock a Locked Data or Removable Drive

Banker · 18 Jul 2016

This is the error I get

Banker · 18 Jul 2016

the affected drive is F and I want to be restored to the C drive.

Banker · 18 Jul 2016

This is what happens evertyime I enter the recovery ID, I am simply unable to attain any sort of access to the drive.

Brink · 18 Jul 2016

You won't be able to recover F: to C: since C: is the Windows drive. You'll need to recover F: to a different drive letter.

Banker · 18 Jul 2016

I have entered another external drive in G and the error persists, am I typing the command correctly?

Brink · 18 Jul 2016

I don't see any issues with the command.

Is the G: drive of equal or larger size than the F: drive?

If you have the BitLocker recovery key for F: , then you might try the command in step 3 for it instead.

Banker · 18 Jul 2016

I will try the recovery ID as a method of recovery also.

I have a 250GB 2.5" as my external, the drive I am trying to recover from is a 320GB 2.5" but the data is not more than 150GB.

does the drive itself need to be equivalent to or larger than the affected drive?

so in other words I will a 320GB or more?

Brink · 18 Jul 2016

Yep, the amount used doesn't matter. You will need a drive at least 320GB or more to recover to.

Banker · 19 Jul 2016

Please see this error again.

I am trying to recover :F(320GB) to drive :H (320GB).

Am i doing something wrong?

Brink · 19 Jul 2016

I don't see any obvious issue with the syntax of the command.

Try the command below to see how it does without -f instead:

repair-bde F: H: -pw