How to recover lost data after BitLocker decryption failed?

Posted by Tim to BitLocker Recovery on April 10th, 2018

I have external hard disk which was encrypted with BitLocker in Windows 7. Later while decrypting, the light went off several times due to BitLocker decryption failed. I have correct password. I hvae recovery password. Now when i try to login with that correct password it shows invalid password and not able to use recovery password as it also shows same. When i checked the status of disk it shows locked status with unknown encrypted percentage.

According to above description, file system of BitLocker encrypted drive has been corrupted after BitLocker decryption failed so that the password or 48-digit BitLocker recovery key cannot unlock BitLocker encrypted drive. In this situation, the only way is to recover lost data from BitLocker encrypted drive.

BitLocker data recovery

Unlike common data recovery, BitLocker data recovery requires intact BitLocker metadata and password or 48-digit BitLocker recovery key to decrypt data from BitLocker encrypted drive so that lost data can be recovered properly, so we must find a professional BitLocker data recovery software to recover lost data from failed BitLocker encrypted drive.

iBoysoft BitLocker Recovery is a professional BitLocker data recovery software which can recover lost data from inaccessible BitLocker encrypted drive, recover lost data from corrupted BitLocker encrypted drive, recover lost data from formatted BitLocker encrypted drive, recover lost data from failed BitLocker encrypted drive, recover lost or deleted BitLocker encrypted partition, recover lost data from BitLocker encrypted hard drive, external hard drive, USB flash drive, USB stick, memory stick, SD card in Windows 10/8/7/XP.

Tutorial to recover lost data after BitLocker decryption failed in Windows 10/8/7

Step 1: Download, install and launch iBoysoft BitLocker Recovery on your computer.

Step 2: Select the failed BitLocker encrypted drive and then click Next to continue.

BitLocker data recovery software

Step 2: Enter the password or 48-digit BitLocker recovery key and click Ok.

Enter the password or decrypt data from failed BitLocker encrypted drive

Step 3: Scan the lost data from failed BitLocker encrypted drive.

Scan lost data after BitLocker decryption failed

Step 4: After your files are found, please select them and click "Recover" to start data recovery from a failed BitLocker encrypted drive.

Recover lost data after BitLocker decryption failed

If some recovered files cannot open, please check "Revert decryption" option under Help menu and recover them again.

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