Repair Bde Command Password Or Recovery

Repair Bde Command Password Or Recovery

Repair-bde can reconstruct critical parts of the drive and salvage recoverable data as long as a valid recovery password or recovery key is used to decrypt the data.

If the BitLocker metadata data on the drive has become corrupt, you must be able to supply a backup key package in addition to the recovery password or recovery key.

This key package is backed up in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) if you used the default setting for AD DS backup.

Each key package will work only for a drive that has the corresponding drive identifier.

You can use the BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer for Active Directory to obtain this key package from AD DS.

However, if the hard drive has been damaged, repair-bde may not be able to find the package and will prompt you to provide the path.

The recovery password should be typed in eight blocks of six digits with a hyphen separating each block.

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If the BitLocker metadata data on the drive is corrupt, you must be able to supply a backup key package in addition to the recovery password or recovery key.

If you used the default key back up setting for Active Directory Domain Services, your key package is backed up there.

You can use the BitLocker: Use BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer to obtain the key package from AD DS.

Each key package works only for a drive with the corresponding drive identifier.

The contents of the output volume will be completely deleted and overwritten by the decrypted contents from the damaged BitLocker drive.

If you want to save any existing data on the selected target drive, move the existing data to other reliable backup media first, before running the repair-bde command.

If the path to a key package isnt specified, this command searches the drive for a key package.