Decryption of a disk of external encrypted by BitLocker on a device that is not BitLocker (Windows 7 Home Premium)
Hi all
I have a serious problem I tried to solve a few months now, but without success.
I have this external hard drive I use to backup my data. These a few months ago, I plugged on my mother's computer to transfer files. His computer has the Windows 8.1 operating system, so it has installed in it and somehow, without giving me permission to BitLocker (and totally, I swear that I have not: D), it must have encrypted my external hard drive. When I then tried to connect it to my computer which runs on Windows 7 Home Premium, it just said that the drive is encrypted and cannot be opened. It does give me an option to enter the password or something like that. It will not only open.
So, I have the recovery password that I got from my mother's laptop so I can open the external drive into any computer on which BitLocker is installed. But I can't get it running on my computer, which is the one that I need to run it on, of course...
I checked and analyzed all the forums of discussion and forums and methods for disabling BitLocker encryption on a drive. They all have this method super-easy show where you just have to connect the player to a computer on which BitLocker, and you plug in, you should see an option "disable Bitlocker", after a right click on the device, on the upper left as you have the device open, or via the control panel. I tried to do it on 3 different computers with BitLockers, and none of them gave me such an option. I could only control encryption of the computer itself, but not to any external devices. I'm not kidding, it's just not there. Never.
I also downloaded some freeware that said they could decipher the reader for you if you have the password, but none of them worked. So please, please, if you have any suggestions, ways I could solve this problem and get the external hard drive to be able to if run on my computer even once, I would be so grateful :)
Thanks guys,.
Katarina
I could only control encryption of the computer itself, but not to any external devices.
I just plugged an encrypted by BitLocker on a Windows 7 Starter machine flash disk and quickly got the prompt to enter the password. Given that this is not consistent with your own observations, I suspect that one of two things:
- Encryption has not been successfully completed. Maybe the disc has been disconnected during the encryption process.
- The disk is not encrypted but corrupt.
I bring the disc the machine to your mother, save its data to another medium, then remove the encryption and/or distribution & format the drive.
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