Bitlocker Usb Stick Windows 11
Latrisha Adan
This drive has some important and personal files that I would like to recover. When I first encrypted it, I didn't know what I was doing (which I now realize was a horrible mistake on my part). The only things I remember from when I encrypted this drive was that it was on a Windows 7 Gateway laptop.
That laptop eventually got a virus, so I had to get it wiped. Along with getting the virus out, it also got upgraded to Windows 8.
The drive worked on Windows 8 for a while and then one day it just didn't. It kept asking me for a recovery key, which I didn't even remember having at all. I found it so weird, and it hasn't worked on any version of Windows or any other laptop I've owned since.
I've tried loading the recovery key from my USB drive but it doesn't work. And the only thing I have to show for trying to get into my USB drive is a .BEK file which I have no idea how to get my hands on nor how to even open it.
If there's a disk read error, it could of course mean, it could not read the key. If however the key is readable (make sure by opening it n notepad, if it opens, all is well, although the contents will look strange [encryption key files always look that way])), it could only mean the usb drive itself is damaged.
In that case, try to mount it on a different computer. If the outcome is the same, try to remove the drive from its housing and connect it directly via SATA (that is, if that is an external hard drive with SATA connector). If that fails as well, you could only try the command repair-bde, see -us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/repair-bde
You can open the .bek file on any computer. There's no "it won't let me" possible.
What I am trying to make you do is open the .bek file just in order to see whether it's possible to open or whether the read error that you saw came from an unreadable .bek file.
The key is on a USB stick. That stick is not bitlocker protected, so that message is not correctly quoted, I guess. Please add a screenshot of both the command line (with the above error message displayed) and of windows explorer showing f:
Ok, no bek file.
Initially, you wrote "I've tried loading the recovery key from my USB drive but it doesn't work".
That made me think "he has a recovery key file (.txt file or .bek file) on another USB stick.
Is that the case? You have another stick with such a file, or not?
thanks for the advice, recently recieved fw 16 as my father passed and wanted me to have it.
he had it packaged with windows 11 not my personal choice as havnt used windows personally since win7/10. thought of dual booting but relised windows updates every now and then and remembered how windows works, always had trouble with my win10/ubuntu setup forced me to go straight ubuntu all together, had no trouble with that hence win10 didnt work/run great on that computer. so sticking to my guts ill wait till windows 11 becomes obsolete and runs too clunky on fw 16 before switching back to linux. as all windows computers go windows will become obsolete on this hardware one day.
However this is not correct: Suspend Bitlocker before starting the Ubuntu installation and you will avoid the lengthy procedure of decrypting and re-encrypting the disk (which spoils your SSD/NVMe as well).
The EFI partition that comes with preinstalled Windows is rather small. Users who know the caveats of creating their own partition are smart enough to do it without this mentioned directly. Users who know a bit about partitioning but do not understand the full consequences should no tbe urged to forge ahead. Also, adding warnings about this-and-that for the borderline users does not belong here. It is better leave the instructions as simple as possible.
my experience doing this on one drive is that Windows tends to just take over the boot manager when you alter your device encryption configuration (as in, decrypt device then install ubuntu on dual boot then re-encrypt which requires you to set BIOS to load the windows boot manager first) - windows just goes ahead and removes your boot manager when you do that
I have just upgraded win10 to win11 and had the same issue as one commenter, that bitlocker was not activated but still blocking the install from a USB stick. I activated it, deactivated, and had to resart the computer twice.
THen I checked in Disk Manager and it was indeed no longer encrypted by BitLocker. I could then restart for the 5th time or so, and the install Ubuntu 20.0 from USB stick worked.
(not solved) The link you have sent is the same as every other bit locker encryption for Mac, can read only. The question I asked if there was any recommended ones that would let me copy the files over to my Mac without the cost of between $40-60.. for something which I will probably only use once or twice..
don't think the security of the bitlocker runs that high, its the works I.T requirement, however I can use the drive on any windows pc, insert the usb and it will ask for the password.. I think its to stop any viruses being uploaded to the PC's..which is stupid if I can unlock it on any windows enabled pc and therefore potentially take a virus form one pc to another, but hey as long as it's bitlocker protected then it'll be ok..!! That sounds really secure Microsoft...!!!
The BitLocker that I am thinking about is built into Windows Vista and later, and on recent hardware, writes its recovery key into a motherboard location known as the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). That recovery key would not be available anywhere else but on the Windows machine that bitlocker was run, and the content of your USB drive will be worthless anywhere other than on that original Windows machine.
Hey,
I am curious when windows bitlocker support with be added.
All of my external drives have been encrypted using windows bitlocker. I can connect the drives manually, but it is a real PTA. In distros like Ubuntu and Pop_OS, you just plug it in and it will ask for the password, remember your password, and auto-mount if I like. But in Zorin, I have to download extra software and do a lot of work in the command line to get it working every time I plug it in.
This is a guide on how to access a BitLocker-encrypted Windows volume from Linux, useful in cases of dual-booting Windows 10, 8 or 7, and a Linux distribution. It covers how to decrypt and mount the BitLocker partition from the command line, as well...
Yea dislocker works great, and I used that to manually mount the partitions, but I was hoping for something like Ubuntu/Pop that just automatically maps the partitions and opens the dislocker-file to a new location. It is just seemless and acts just like a regular external drive, just asks for a password
Does the guide not cover automount for the drive so that it performs in the way you describe?
I did not fully read it. Just to be clear... I often reply to threads while multi-tasking and cannot really devote enough attention to things (which has caused me grief a few times).
Zorin OS is based on Ubuntu as is POP_OS, so it seems very likely to me that what you are looking for should be pretty easy to set up.
So, I have a Inspiron 7306 laptop. All was working great, but I wanted to give it to a family member. I tried to do a fresh Windows install within Windows. It didn't appear to work and instead loads Windows & brings me back to the login screen. However, it is now not accepting my password. At this point, my only option seems to do a fresh install from a USB drive.
I created the media on a USB drive from the Microsoft website. When I boot my Inspiron into the USB drive and start to go through the Windows installation setup, I am getting the following screen (below) telling me "it couldn't find any drives" for the Windows installation.
OK, any idea how to fix this so it shows up and I can continue to do a fresh Windows install? Do I need to use another method for installing Windows? Should I download a different version to my USB stick? Just wondering how to continue with the install
This page at easeus describes how to change a disk from GPT to MBR. It also has a link to Partition Manager which is used to perform that function. AOMEI Partition Assistant here can also be used for that purpose.
Insert in your target system your Dell Recovery USB key. Power up and immediately press F12 to show BIOS boot menu. Select under UEFI Boot: the UEFI: Dell Recovery USB selection. Follow the Dell Recovery USB process.
So, I have FINALLY gotten back to troubleshooting this issue. While I am able to create and boot up in the USB drive (containing Windows media), I am still running into problems. As stated before, no drives are showing up for a location to install Windows.
I tried the suggestion from the previous post where it basically tells me to obtain the storage driver for my laptop. I was able to do this and as stated & extract it to a USB drive. Here is where I got the storage driver for my model (2nd one on the list)
Well, after a few hrs and the help of Youtube, I was FINALLY able to figure this out. Basically, it required me to obtain the right storage driver from Intel's site. Here is where I got the right driver:
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