Bitlocker Drive Encryption

Mystic Twilight said:
The physical drive should not be damaged. Your data on the other hand is probably lost forever. In theory you could brute force a recovery of the data as you know the password for the encryption, and you should know the encryption/decryption algorithm (except as this is proprietary software, you probably do not know which exact algorithm was used).
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i know the password and have the recovery key. what program must i use to bruteforce?
 
Mystic Twilight said:
The physical drive should not be damaged. Your data on the other hand is probably lost forever. In theory you could brute force a recovery of the data as you know the password for the encryption, and you should know the encryption/decryption algorithm (except as this is proprietary software, you probably do not know which exact algorithm was used).
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Have you read the latest posts about how the drive now makes strange noises? Hangs the PC on the BIOS screen if the drive is in?

Nardeth, sounds like your drive got damaged by power loss or something.
 
supersunbird said:
Have you read the latest posts about how the drive now makes strange noises? Hangs the PC on the BIOS screen if the drive is in?

Nardeth, sounds like your drive got damaged by power loss or something.
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Looks like I obviously didn't :whistle:, no description of the noise however.
 
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supersunbird said:
Have you read the latest posts about how the drive now makes strange noises? Hangs the PC on the BIOS screen if the drive is in?

Nardeth, sounds like your drive got damaged by power loss or something.
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the power cable was in the hard drive all the way no one took out the power cable from the hard drive
 
Nardeth said:
the power cable was in the hard drive all the way no one took out the power cable from the hard drive
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As per below (and bolded by me), you indicate the machine was powered off somehow (maybe even a ungraceful shutdown aka power dip or cut) while it was doing the encryption, I said nothing about the cable.

Nardeth said:
hello MyBroadband

i started to Encrypt my Perfectly 100% Healthy Drive Yesterday i think the Computer was switched off By my Relative in the house. so now When i unlock the Drive it just freezes the PC and i cant turn off Bitlocker it got to 80.3% and i switched off my desktop switched it back on but my hard drive was probably at over 40 Percent when it was switched off maybe by a power cut. I AM USING WINDOWS TEN PRO Insider Preview Latest Build 17074 64Bit

is there anyway to Switch off bitlocker ?? for a certain drive when it reached over 40 Percent less than 50 percent. Recommend what i must do to Switch off the encryption i have the password and the Recovery key for the drive.

i have used Bitlocker on the one Drive before it never Froze, i think its a bug in the Windows Ten insider preview Build 17074. i read someones trick on Answers.Microsoft.com is there any way i can switch off Bitlocker when i try to unlock the drive in normal mode on windows it freezes the window.
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ok the reason i said the pc was switched off or there was a power cut because the icons reloaded when i logged in in the morning. it happens when i unlock the other hard drives and the pc idles. the pc was still switched on when i logged in the morning
 
Nardeth said:
The Whole PC Freezes at the BIOS Screen when i plug in the drive with the Power cable and SATA cable. its making a Weird noise the one drive. its a 465 GB SATA Drive
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Then it's not Bitlocker...
 
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