Hard Disk Locked By Bitlocker

[Nikita Desjardins]

Somy chances of getting past the Bitlocker problem have diminish greatly, so I am find out from Internet investigation. Making my best chance of saving a expensive Lenovo, is to some how format the hard disk! But I don'r know Command Line. But I direly want to learn, so I have that knowledge to not only help myself, but others as well.

Note: If you do not know your BitLocker password or recovery key, you will not be able to unlock the drive. In this case, you will need to format the drive to access the data on it. However, formatting the drive will erase all of the data on the drive, so it is important to back up the data before formatting.

I have a HD protected by Bitlocker. Login, password and restorekey are unknown and all I want to do is wipe the whole drive. When I try to boot from a windows installation cd I have no access to the drive since it asks for the restore key I don't have.

If that doesn't help, there is still the possibility to wipe the complete disk - after overwriting the first few megabytes the HDD will be recognized as fresh new HDD by Windows.You can do that for example using DBAN but don't forget to disconnect all the other HDDs before using it - otherwise you may delete the wrong HDD and lose all your data.

Press SHIFT-F10 or hit 'repair' in from the Windows installation to open up the command line, then execute the diskpart command and delete the partition, e.g.: list disk, select disk 0 or any other identifying the correct disk, list partition, select partition 1, or the encrypted one , in case there are multiple partitions, then delete partition override.

I just install Windows and when it comes to the time where setup asks you where you want to install Windows, I use "advanced options" to delete all partitions. Then let setup create a new partition for you and presto, you're done.

Did this numerous times on a bunch of notebooks we aquired for recycling (I work at a thrift store of some sort), which were all encrypted with Bitlocker. It must have been at least 100 notebooks from a office centre that went belly-up, no problems what-so-ever.

You dont absolutely need DBAN, GParted or another third party tool. Just Bootup WindowsPE (e.g. with a windows installation media on USB Stick or DVD) and use the windows format command to format the drive. When you have a Bitlocker encrypted drive, you just need to securely delete its encryption keys. For this its enough to format the drive.

I have an SSD that was locked by BitLocker. Thankfully I did not need to get at the data. I just wanted to reuse the drive. At first I thought I would need to use Linux as mentioned by another user, but thankfully I did not.

At first, it did not show up in my drive list. Luckily I got distracted with something else and left it plugged in. After about five minutes, it popped up on my list, and an additional pop up window came up asking for the BitLocker key.

For those wiping a disk or memory card with Linux, I can confirm that wiping the first 4 MB and creating a new fat32 filesystem worked fine for me for an SD card used in a Windows phone. (The SD card was no longer available after a device reset.) No need to delete partitions. (Not sure whether the phone would even accept an SD card without partition.)

I think that the method that I used was simpler than most of these suggestions. I just did this on a number of our company's laptops. We are closing and will be turning all of our assets, including the computers, over to the new tenants. So we needed a way to wipe all of the hard drives and I didn't really want to enter a BitLocker key for each of the units.

Using DISKPART to remove all partitions worked for me.If bitlocker is mandatory then first fully update windows and drivers and bios before enabling bitlocker. Otherwise you will need to do all the tedious stuff like pausing protection on/off after each reboot update.

I inherited a fully loaded Lenovo laptop that had Win8 that the local IT shop was hired to upgrade to Win10 The PC had bitlocker on and they had the key but somehow blew the install and told the customer it was trashed.

The fix was simple - boot to a Win10 bootable USB (or DVD if you have that option) When you get to the 'where to install' screen, delete all of the partitions - that wipes out the bitlocker info and Win10 installs without a hitch.

For an hour of my time and $25 for a new charger I got an i7 8gb touchscreen convertible that brand new was easily $1000 plus - not too shabby! The interesting thing was that Windows was automatically activated.

The Win10 files can be downloaded from Microsoft for free and as long as you have a Win7 or 8 license it will activate. Just go to -us/software-download/windows10 select create media to download the installation tool. The instructions for creating bootable USB or DVD media are on that page.

I am a wedding photographer desperately looking for help. I use a Seagate 2TB hard drive to house my RAW files in one place before editing. Luckily I have them backed up and also on the SD cards but recently when I plugged in this particular hard-drive into my PC I got an error saying BitLocker has encrypted it and I need a passcode or a key. I have never set up BitLocker on this computer at all and can not find anything about it on this computer. I also have troubleshot going into my Microsoft account looking for the recovery key since everyone has told me it has to be there but there is nothing registered to this device. I have a consult call with Microsoft and they said that they do not see BitLocker on my account either. I contacted Seagate but they said that they do not support the encryption service on their drives because it is exclusively through Microsoft? But I am beginning to believe that is not the case because when I plug it into any other windows based computer it shows the same error and on my Apple, it does not even mount to the desktop. I have exhausted all my options and I am very frustrated with Microsoft. Any helpful tips would be amazing! An no I have never plugged it in to another Windows computer

If you didn't connect it anywhere else and there's no recovery key to be found, you will need to format the drive and restore from backup.

The recovery key could of course be still retrievable if you only knew who encrypted it on your machine. If you are the only person with access to your machine, it should have been you, but you say you haven't and online there's no key, so the only possible explanation to my mind is that someone played a trick on you when your machine was left unattended.

If you have a modern device that supports automatic device encryption then the driver might have been encrypted automatically. If you are sure if you have not connected the PC to any domain or organization you can try disabling the secure boot in the Pc and try opening the hard disk.

I am having the same issue. Has anyone been able to locate their recovery key? Please help. I got a new computer and now my seagate external hard drive says it's encrypted. I have tried every password I have ever had and none work. I just need all the pictures on my hard drive.

However, if you forget both or Bitlocker not recognize password or recovery key, then you ultimately lose access to the drive. In that case, a question will pop up in your mind: How to unlock a BitLocker encrypted drive without a password and recovery key?

This article contains all the possible solutions to unlock a BitLocker encrypted drive and remove BitLocker encryption from the drive without a password and recovery key. Hopefully, by the end of the reading, you can solve this problem.

Note: No one can access a BitLocker encrypted drive without both the password and recovery key. So, this post focuses on telling you all the possible ways to find the BitLocker password and recovery key or turn off the BitLocker encryption without password and recovery key.

Despite the warning to create unique and strong passwords, many users still choose commonly used passwords or reuse familiar passwords, so that it's easier to remember. Unfortunately, forgetting passwords is a common part of life, and you may forget these once-familiar passwords soon. If you are one of them, now sit down, relax, and try to recall all the passwords you used in the past.

BitCracker - It is the first open-source password-cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker. BitCracker tries to find the password or recovery key to decrypt the BitLocker encrypted drive through a dictionary attack.

Thegrideon BitLocker Password - It is an advanced password recovery tool for BitLocker encrypted drives and BitLocker to Go-protected removable devices. It employs several password search attacks to get the job done, including dictionary attacks with modifications, brute-force attacks, and advanced mixed attacks.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery - It can break complex passwords and recover strong encryption keys. It offers the fastest password recovery service and is one of the most technologically advanced products.

Microsoft's BitLocker drive encryption always requires you to store the recovery key when you set it up. It offers different ways for Windows users to back up the recovery key based on operating system versions. If you cannot recover the forgotten BitLocker password, retrieving the BitLocker recovery key is the only option to unlock your encrypted drive.

When you were prompted with the option to reserve the recovery key, you could have saved it to a USB flash drive, or saved it as a file or a physical printout. If you are running Windows 8.1 and later, you could have stored it in your Microsoft account.

Download the professional data recovery software: iBoysoft Data Recovery to scan your computer now. After the scan completes, please enter *.bek in the search box of iBoysoft Data Recovery and filter the found files.

We will introduce three efficient BitLocker recovery key recovery tools: Passware Kit, Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor, and BitCracker to help you restore the recovery key. They can extract the BitLocker recovery key by analyzing your computer memory.

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