How to solve 'Error recovering disk: The recovery key you typed is not correct'?

Posted by Tim to BitLocker Recovery on December 28th, 2017

I have a BitLocker encrypted external hard drive, every time I Enter the BitLocker recovery key to unlock it and receive: "Error recovering disk: The recovery key you typed is not correct. Type it again". I confirm I have entered correct recovery key, please help.

Recovery error: The recovery key you typed is not correct

There are several solutions we can have a try:

Solution 1: Enter correct recovery key or password.

If you forgot or lost BitLocker recovery key or password, please refer to how to unlock BitLocker encrypted drive without the password or BitLocker recovery key?

Solution 2: Try another computer

If you confirm you have entered correct recovery key, please connect BitLocker encrypted drive to another computer and try to unlock BitLocker encrypted drive with recovery key.

Solution 3: BitLocker data recovery

iBoysoft BitLocker Recovery is a professional BitLocker data recovery software which can recover lost data from formatted, corrupted, failed, inaccessible, unknown, deleted or lost BitLocker encrypted partition, etc. as long as we provide the password or 48-digit BitLocker recovery key.

Tutorial to recover lost data from corrupted BitLocker encrypted drive with iBoysoft BitLocker Recovery

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

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

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Step 3: Enter the password or 48-digit BitLocker recovery key.

Decrypt data from corrupted BitLocker encrypted drive

Step 4: Scan the lost data from corrupted BitLocker encrypted drive.

Recover lost data from corrupted BitLocker encrypted drive

Step 5: After the lost data is found, please select them and click "Recover" to save.

Recover data from corrupted BitLocker encrypted drive