Solution 2: Disable Bitlocker with Command Prompt Step 1: Open Command Prompt as administrator. To do that quickly press Windows Key + X to open Win + X menu and choose Command Prompt (Admin) from the menu. Step 2: When Command Prompt opens, enter manage-bde -off X: command and run it (Replace X. Jul 17, 2017 No, Windows 10 Home does not have any options to BitLocker. I ended up setting up an appointment at Microsoft store and with assistance from one of the reps to decrypt the drives using one of their Win 10 Professional machines. A very time consuming process (like 90 minutes with 180 GB data on a 1 TB drive USB 3.0) but it worked.
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I suggest that you try the steps on this link:
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I suggest that you try the steps on this link:
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I don't have Home, but can you right click on the drive when it is inserted and do you see any Bitlocker options? You could also click on your Start menu and start typing Bitlocker and see if anything comes up.
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No, Windows 10 Home does not have any options to BitLocker. I ended up setting up an appointment at Microsoft store and with assistance from one of the reps to decrypt the drives using one of their Win 10 Professional machines. A very time consuming process (like 90 minutes with 180 GB data on a 1 TB drive USB 3.0) but it worked.
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The BitLocker command line options remain available in Windows 10 Home. To unlock, or turn -off, BitLocker do the following:
1.Open the command prompt with an administrator account
2.Type “manage-bde -status” to check if any drives are encrypted with BitLocker
3.Unlock drive “manage-bde -unlock E: -RecoveryKey {recovery key}” (change E: to encrypted drive)
4.Turn off bit locker “manage-bde -off E:” (change E: to encrypted drive)
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I turned on Bitlocker on drive
F: which has alot of important content in it.
Now when I try to unlock it the PC hangs. Only restart fixes this. I know the password, but the recover key is lost.
Is there anything I can do to restore my files?
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at first sight http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee706522(WS.10).aspx looks good:
The site of Manage-bde gives:
So, you can try to:
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Remove the drive, connect it to another computer capable of reading Bitlocker drives, then use the recovery key that you should have written down/backed up to disk somewhere safe to unlock it.
If you don't have the recovery key, and unlocking it normally is hosed then you're screwed. Since your data is important, I'm assuming you have a backup of it somewhere. Restore it from that.
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Try to restart computer without F: drive - unplug it if it's removable.Once computer is up and no longer hanging, plug F: back in and try to use 'manage-bde -off F:' command that akira mentioned above.
romkaromka
This sounds like a hardware problem. My suggestion would be to first try to unlock the drive using the manage-bde utility.
If this fails, I suggest trying to unlock the drive on another machine in case the hardware problem is on your first computer. The computer will need to have Win7 installed. Alternatively, you can create a bootable WinRE (not WinPE) DVD, which will also allow you to manage BitLocker and attempt to unlock the drive. Instructions for this are here here.
You said that the recovery key is lost but if you have the recovery password (the 48-digit number generated during BitLocker setup) you can recover the drive using the repair-bde command line tool included in Win7. If your computer was connected to a network with Active Directory, your recovery password was backed up to AD and can be recovered by contacting your AD admin.
mtlynchmtlynch
Another, albeit, desperate method might involve a system recovery tool like, NTFS Undelete.When you install BitLocker on your drives you are forced to back the key up to a removable drive.
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If in your case this was onto an infrequently used USB stick and you simply deleted the key from that stick and haven't used the stick much since then, it might be possible to pull your recovery file off the stick by scanning it with a tool like NTFS Undelete.
It's an absolute long shot but desperate does as desperate is.
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