Power failure during Bitlocker decryption
Hi All
I have a laptop where primary HDD has been encrypted using bitlocker, based on TPM. There was a problem with mainboard and was replaced by support, but there was a problem with running old disk on new mainboard - TPM has been turned off/disabled and
option in BIOS was inactive. I had Bitlocker password saved so I took the disk out from computer and connected to another computer using USB-SATA bridge, entered a recovery password and data has been accessible. I decided to decrypt the disk and during decryprion
process (when it was on 12%) power supply of this USB-SATA bridge had a failure and decryption process was interrupted. I connected this disk again, now I opened the desktop and plugged HDD directly, but...
On Control Panel -> BitLocker Drive Encryption I see a status that BL for this drive is on but I see a symbol of padlock, and there is only option available "Unlock Volume", but when I clicked it error message appeared:
Error recoveing disk E: BitLocker protection is disabled.
From commandline when used "manage-bde -status" command I can see that:
Size: Unknown GB
Conversion Status: Unknown
Percentage Encrypted: Unknown%
Encryption Method: AES 128 with Diffuser
Protection Status: Protection Off
Lock Status: Locked
Automatic Unlock: Enabled
Key Protectors:
Numerical Password
TPM
External Key
External Key (Required for automatic unlock)
but when tried unlock it:
ERROR: The password failed to unlock volume E:. (code 0x1)
Unknown runtime error
Please help - some important files are located on this disk
Best Regards
Sebastian
September 24th, 2010 11:31am