I am having an issue with a Bitlocker drive. The drive encrypted with a machine but had issue with the Motherboard, Until motherboard replaced the drive connected to a new PC as an external drive and then Bitlocker triggered unlock, so can open the drive and access old data. Was able to get a recovery key from IT based on the challenge code which worked only once.
Tried to use bitlocker recovery environment using repair-bde but no luck. Tried number of software , minitools , Disk drill, icare, still no light, At this moment i am out of ideas so if any tips would be really helpful.
People do get caught out with bitlocker and you always need a backup of any data on a bitlockered drive. If you got access to the data then you were fortunate and should have copied it to somewhere safe. When you attempted the second unlock you should try it on the same PC and with the same login as you did when you first had success. Maybe there is a new key generated. Have a word with your IT and hope they can help.
Have you tried again on the same PC with the same Account. Bitlocker can get automatically enabled. See Rod_ITs best answer here: BitLocker enabled by default
You can try Ubuntu and there is a programme called dislocker which unlocks bitlockered drives if you have the right key. See: How To Mount BitLocker-Encrypted Windows Partitions On Linux - Linux Uprising Blog
What puzzles me is that you seem a large organisation and yet there is not a backup procedure?
BitLocker encrypted drives mostly not recognized by the third party hard drive tools because once we encrypt our drives with password protection using BitLocker it ensures that the third-party tools cannot view that for security purposes.
There is no second thought in saying that the process to encrypt hard drives offers the utmost security and protection of data. But, as the coin has two sides, similarly, here also benefit come with a drawback, i.e., if something happened to that encrypted drive and you want to recover data from that drive then the tool which you use might not recognize or detect the encrypted hard drive.
However, there is a tool that enables the user to recover data from BitLocker Encrypted drive. You can try Stellar Data Recovery Professional Software that will help you recover lost or deleted data from corrupted or accidentally formatted drive, or even from lost partitions of the drive.
This executable code performs some checks first. One of the things it does is check if the MBR contains some signature bytes: The last 2 bytes of the MBR should read 55 AA in hex. And that is what I look for as well. If those bytes are missing the OS will assume that the disk is not initialized.
Like the MBR, a boot sector contains boot code. It does not matter if we talk about a FAT or a NTFS boot sector. The executable code in the MBR finds the active partition, it then jumps to the first sector of the partition (boot sector). It then executes the code it finds in that sector.
The similarities with the MBR do not end here. Apart from the executable code, the boot sector also contains information the OS or utility software can use to interpret what is on the partition. It describes the type of file system like FAT 16 (you can actually see this info in the above screenshot as human readable text). It also contains info on where the various key components of the file system are located.
The software I used (iRecover) interprets this information and shows it to us in readable form. It shows us the location of the FAT (File Allocation Table), the backup FAT, the root directory etc.. For a different file system it will show different information. A NTFS boot sector for example it will tell us where we can find the MFT (Master File Table). Most file systems it will store the size of the partition in the boot sector.
Again using the right side pane in the disk viewer you can click the interpreted values to jump to the location it points to. So, by jumping to the MFT start LCN (logical cluster number) you get at the first sector of the MFT.
IMO a scenario like this separates very good diy data recovery software apart from simpler written data recovery software. What seems to have happened here (DIY Data Recovery from an unknown disk) is that the simpler software was intelligent enough to dismiss the boot sector.
The better software keeps all options open. It just scans the entire area for file system structures for all file systems it supports. I know for a fact that is how iRecover works. Then when finding large chunks of MFT it decides on NTFS.
I think I know what happened. I often test our software (from www.diydatarecovery.nl) on scrap disks. And I think this is a scrap disk that I used for cloning. I probably cloned a larger disk on to a smaller disk. Just to test the disk copy routines. It makes sense because of what we see on this disk. And because I did that all the time.
I'm in a situation where I have some important video files (485 GB of footage) on an External hard drive (a 2TB WD My Passport), and this happens to be the only remaining backup of the footage that I have (the drive has 1TB of space remaining). I need to be able to copy this footage to another hard drive, but have been unable to do so due to an "Error -36" (the drives that I have attempt to copy the footage to have plenty of free space). When I begin the transfer of footage, the progress bar never progresses, and kind of freezes in place for a minute or so before the error pops up:
I have done some research and have attempted to do a "dot_clean" command in Terminal. This has helped to an extent in that I've been able to copy a few smaller sized files (for example, a powerpoint file, and a small audio file that was 33.4 MB). I'm also able to copy some smaller files onto this hard drive. The dot_clean solution has also allowed me to begin* copying some larger video files but they never finish; for example, the progress bar on a 33GB video file will get to about 24GB, but it freezes up and that error code -36 pops up again (and it fails).
Ultimately you may need to purchase these to actually recover, so you might want to try one at a time. Some may have a free trial that indicates first what it can recover, with purchase required to actually recover the drive.
I would start with Disk Warrior first. It attempts to create an entirely new file system map and will scavage the disk to accomplish this. It takes a very long time but it uses a brute force method that might work.
One "Hail Mary" you can also try first is to download the free version of SuperDuper and see if it can clone the problematic drive. It will probably fail with the same error but it might retry and do better.
I want a code for windows please. I have managed to recover a few photos and documents using the free version. Now I want to recover everything that I have lost using the pro version.I would appreciate if I get a code for windows. Thank you.
By any chance you still have a code for MAC? I accidentally deleted my files in the trash. the software is telling i need to have premium account due to the the selections i want to perform (file is less than 500mb).
Hi I think Disk drill are full of it Im trying to recover some files and they dont let me use use the 500 whatever they give you for free, they want me to upgrade to pro but how I know if is gone work if I can not even open up a single file to see it.
The drive was detected but when it is plugged in fsck starts to execute and it seems to run indefinitely. In my case it looped around the Could not repair after 3 attempts" error but then it just restarted the tests again.
Finally I downloaded the free version of DiskDrill and clicked on the Rebuild button. When doing that, Diskdrill showed me drive content. However I could not select mount in the Free version and could not pay 89$ for recovering a non-important drive worth 30$.
However, I found it interesting that DiskDrill could see content and offered me to mount the drive so I wondered if it had done something good. So I went back to Disk Utility that previously did not allow me to Mount the broken drive and tried to Mount again and now it worked. I think DiskDrill unblocked something.
I tried all other options I could find, using command line, disk utility etc and this was the only thing that unblocked the situation. So it seems tools like Disk Drill etc can accomplish more than what Mac OS offers and it might be worth looking into if you have this issue. In my case I managed to work around it with the free version in combination with DiskUtility but if you need to recover files you probably need the full version (I could see the drive content but since I did not care about it, I just formatted the drive).
Linux was still able to mount my Volume. But couldnt read my Pictures and Documents Folder, because of readonly Disk and no rights to read these Folders. So couldnt change the rights to readable by anyone.So i couldnt copy my Data to an other Disk ! (i didnt want to pay DiskWarrior)
I've tried just about everything on every forum I read short of formatting my hard drive. I was able to save my data by plugging my hard drive into an older Macbook not using High Sierra. After the beachball went away after a while I was able to see and drag my folders to another external hard drive one by one. It took a few days because it was a 3T, but I was able to copy everything. Hope this helps!
Most likely, your drive has or is in the process of failing. My suggestion is to use a tool like DiskDrill's free tools to see if there is anything recoverable. If it is and it makes sense to, then you can purchase a license to recover your data.
Disk file system corrupted, indeed. If the disk is dying or not good anymore is easy to see with a tool. Download DriveDx from binaryfruit.com (trial) and the recommended satsmart driver. Test the disk.
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