Windows 7 Bitlocker Recovery Key Generator Hp Elitebook 840

11.12.2020
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Updated by Tim to Bitlocker Recovery on April 2nd, 2020

Summary: This post will show you how to unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive with/without password and recovery key.

Table of the article contents

How to unlock Bitlocker drive with password?

The password is the fast way to unlock Bitlocker drive. Following are two methods to unlock Bitlocker drive with password:

Method 1: Unlock Bitlocker drive in Windows explorer

1. Open My Computer (or This PC) on the desktop.

2. Double-click on Bitlocker drive in Windows explorer.

3. Enter the password on the unlock window.

4. Click Unlock to unlock Bitlocker drive.

If there are some files missing after unlocking this drive, try M3 Data Recovery to recover lost data. See below tutorials:

Method 2: Unlock Bitlocker drive from command prompt

Manage-bde is a command-line tool. It can be used for scripting BitLocker operations, such as unlock Bitlocker drive, turn off Bitlocker, change the password.

1. Type cmd in search bar of Windows Taskbar.

2. Right click cmd.exe from the search results and then choose 'Run as administrator' from the menu to allow Administrator privilege.

3. Type the command: manage-bde -unlock X: -password and then press Enter.

Tips: X is the drive letter of your Bitlocker drive.

4. Enter the password and then press Enter to unlock Bitlocker drive.

If manage-bde failed to unlock this Bitlocker volume, try M3 Data Recovery to recover lost data.

How to unlock Bitlocker drive without password?

If you forgot the password, but you saved 48-digit recovery key, Bitlocker drive can be unlocked with 48-digit recovery key.

Method 1: Unlock Bitlocker drive in Windows explorer

1. Open My Computer (or This PC) on the desktop.

2. Double-click on the Bitlocker drive in Windows explorer.

3. Click 'More Options'.

4. Click 'Enter recovery key'.

5. According to the recovery key ID, enter the corresponding 48-digit recovery key and then click Unlock.

If you find some files are lost after unlocking this drive, try M3 Data Recovery to recover lost data. See below tutorials:

Method 2: Unlock Bitlocker drive from command prompt

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1. Type cmd in search bar of Windows Taskbar.

2. Right click on cmd.exe from the search results and then choose 'Run as administrator' from the menu.

3. Type the command: manage-bde -unlock X: -RecoveryPassword and press Enter.

Tips: X is the drive letter of your Bitlocker drive.

4. Enter the recovery key and press Enter to unlock BitLocker drive.

If manage-bde failed to unlock this Bitlocker volume, try M3 Data Recovery to recover lost data.

If you lost or forgot 48-digit recovery key, unlocking Bitlocker encrypted drive from command prompt is impossible. (Refer to How/Where to find the lost Bitlocker recovery key?)

How to reset the forgotten Bitlocker password:

1) Right click on Bitlocker encrypted drive in Windows explorer and enter 48-digit recovery key to unlock this drive.

2) In Windows explorer, right click on the unlocked Bitlocker encrypted drive and select 'Manage Bitlocker' option.

3) In Control Panel, click 'Change password' on the specific Bitlocker drive and then reset the forgotten Bitlocker password.

If you find some files are lost after unlocking this drive, try M3 Data Recovery to recover lost data. See below tutorials:

How to unlock Bitlocker drive without password and recovery key?

Now I forgot the password and recovery key, so is there any chance to open Bitlocker encrypted pen drive again?

Method 1: Find recovery key from your Microsoft account

To retrieve the recovery key that was stored to onedrive, visit the site: https://account.microsoft.com/devices/recoverykey, sign in with your Microsoft account and then you will see the recovery key.

Method 2: Attempt access with your usual passwords

Despite the warning to create a strong password, many users still use the usual words or phrases as their passwords. So usual passwords are your first choice.

Try to relax and remember the passwords that you may have used in the past. With some luck, you may get the correct password and open your Bitlocker encrypted drive.

If you are not luck with the usual passwords, following five tools may recover your forgotten Bitlocker password or lost recovery key.

Method 3: Recover the lost recovery key or password with BitCracker

BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker.

By means of a dictionary attack, BitCracker tries to find the password or recovery key to decrypt Bitlocker drive.

Method 4: Recover the lost recovery key or password with Passware Kit

Passware Kit Business and Forensic edition can extract recovery key using live memory analysis and recover Bitlocker password using common attacks.

While Bitlocker encrypted drive was mounted, Passware Kit scans the physical memory image file and extracts all the encryption keys. Refer to How to decrypt Bitlocker volume with Passware Kit?

While Bitlocker encrypted drive was not mounted, Passware Kit scans the system hibernation file (hiberfil.sys) and extracts all the encryption keys.

If both of them don't contain the recovery key, Passware Kit can run the common attacks to recover the forgotten password. Refer to What password recovery attacks can I use?

Method 5: Recover the lost recovery key with Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor

Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor can utilize the binary encryption key contained in the computer's RAM. It could find and extract that key by analyzing the memory dump or hibernation file.

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Method 6: Recover the forgotten Bitlocker password with Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can break the complex passwords and recover the strong encryption key by running the common attacks.

Method 7: Recover the forgotten Bitlocker password with Thegrideon Bitlocker Password

Thegrideon Bitlocker Password is an advanced password recovery tool for encrypted BitLocker and BitLocker to Go volumes protected with a password. Several attacks can be queued: dictionary based, brute-force, mixed for precise search range setup and fastest recovery.

How to unlock Bitlocker drive after Bitlocker doesn't accept the password and recovery key?

If you have the correct password or 48-digit recovery key, try M3 Data Recovery to recover lost data.

M3 Data Recovery is a professional Bitlocker data recovery software. It can recover deleted or lost files from Bitlocker drive after providing the password or 48-digit recovery key.

Step 1: Download, install and launch M3 Data Recovery on your Windows computer.

Step 2: Choose Bitlocker Recovery module, select Bitlocker encrypted drive and click Next to continue.

Step 3: Enter the password or 48-digit recovery key and click Ok to decrypt data.

Step 4: M3 Data Recovery is scanning and decrypting the files from Bitlocker drive.

Step 5: After the scan completes, you can preview the documents, photos and play the videos, audios in preview mode. With this preview function, you can see if your lost files are recoverable.

Step 6: Select the needed files and click 'Recover' to start the recovery.

If you find some recovered files cannot be opened, please check 'Enable brute-force decryption' option and recover them again.

After ensuring all recovered files can be opened, use the following method to format the corrupted Bitlocker encrypted drive.

How to format a Bitlocker drive without password and recovery key?

If there is no important data, you can directly format the Bitlocker encrypted drive without password and recovery key:

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Step 1: Right click on the Bitlocker encrypted drive in My Computer (This PC) or Disk Management.

Step 2: Select 'Format..'.

Step 3: Select file system type and allocation unit size.

Step 4: Set volume label.

Step 5: Click 'Start' to format the Bitlocker encrypted drive.

If there is important data, unlocking Bitlocker drive is the first thing before formatting. Refer to above solutions: How to unlock Bitlocker drive without password and recovery key?

FAQ about unlocking the Bitlocker encrypted drive

Following are several FAQs about unlocking the Bitlocker encrypted drive:

Q: How to unlock the Bitlocker drive?

A: The password and recovery key are two ways to unlock Bitlocker drive. If you don't have them, refer to how to unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive without password and recovery key.

Q: How to unlock the Bitlocker drive from command prompt with password?

A: Type the command: manage-bde -unlock X: -password and then enter the password.

Q: How to unlock the Bitlocker drive from command prompt without password?

A: Type the command: manage-bde -unlock X: -RecoveryPassword and then enter recovery key.

Q: How to unlock the Bitlocker drive from command prompt with recovery key?

A: Type the command: manage-bde -unlock X: -RecoveryPassword and then enter recovery key.

Q: How to unlock the Bitlocker drive from command prompt without recovery key?

A: Type the command: manage-bde -unlock X: -password and then enter the password.

Q: How to unlock Bitlocker drive from command prompt without recovery key and password?

A: In this situation, there is no way to unlock Bitlocker drive from command prompt.

Q: How to break into Bitlocker drive using cmd without recovery key?

A: Refer to how to unlock Bitlocker drive without password and recovery key.

Q: How to get Bitlocker recovery key from cmd?

A: First, unlock Bitlocker drive with the password. Second, type the command: manage-bde -protectors driveletter: -get in cmd and get 48-digit recovery key.

Q: Bitlocker recovery key is not working when unlocking Bitlocker drive.

A: If the password is not working either, try M3 Data Recovery to recover lost data.

Q: I mistakenly formatted the Bitlocker encrypted drive without password and recovery key, is there a way to recover lost data?

Q: I forget the password and recovery key, is there a way to recover lost data after formatting Bitlocker encrypted drive?

A: No, please don't format it and refer to how to unlock Bitlocker encrypted drive without password and recovery key.

Q: Is there a Bitlocker recovery key generator free download?

A: No, every Bitlocker encrypted drive has its unique Bitlocker recovery key.

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Sometimes BitLocker recovery gets tripped and goes into a never-ending boot loop. I've seen this with UEFI and laptops with mSATA cache drives. This will stop the BitLocker request on boot, allowing you to get to the OS and troubleshoot.

You will need the recovery key to complete these steps.

5 Steps total

Step 1: Enter the Boot Loop

Yes - let it loop. We need to get past the recovery screen. Once at the recovery screen, 'skip this drive'

Step 2: Enter Advanced Options

Once skipped enter the advanced options screen:
Advanced Options > Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Command Prompt

Step 3: Double check the drive status

Manage-bde -status c:
Should return BDE Active (or similar)

Step 4: Unlock the drive

Manage-bde -unlock c: -rp

Step 5: Disable drive protection on boot

Manage-bde -protectors -disable c:

This stops the drive form asking for encryption password during next boot

This squirts the key into BDE, unlocks the drive and disables it for next boot, bypassing the boot loop, enabling you to fully manage BDE once Windows has booted.

Sorry there's no pictures for this one!

References

What Is Bitlocker Recovery Key

  • Issues Resulting in Bitlocker Recovery Mode and Their Resolution

Windows 7 Bitlocker Recovery Key Generator Hp Elitebook 840 G1

14 Comments

Windows 7 Bitlocker Recovery Key Generator Hp Elitebook 840 Manual

  • Datil
    BMoore Nov 13, 2015 at 07:14pm

    I also ran into this several times and will have to try your method next time.
    I would just open bitlocker 'Manage Bitlocker' and pause protection.
    Reboot
    open bitlocker 'Manage Bitlocker' and Resume Protection
    and this resolved it.

  • Thai Pepper
    joseespitia Dec 15, 2015 at 09:53pm

    I can second that @Bmoore! Doing this will fix the boot loop 90% of the time.

  • Pimiento
    Erick9244 Aug 29, 2016 at 03:25pm

    I'm having an interesting issue with one of my users. I found the 'disable' fix via googling and it allowed us back into the machine. However, when we turned bitlocker back on. It went back into the loop. I found the following commands and I was wondering if anyone had experience with using them in this scenario:

    Manage-bde –protectors –delete C: -type TPM

    Manage-bde –protectors – add C: -tpm

    Also, my user had some windows updates that some how triggered this. Smart driver updater license key generator.

  • Pimiento
    juleskrickl Mar 22, 2017 at 09:41am

    Worked not to bad for me! Unfurtunally i couldn´t boot anyway, but now i was able to backup the files.
    THX to LWBM

  • Anaheim
    ArtisanInAK Oct 30, 2017 at 11:23pm

    This was great! Worked perfectly for me. I apparently didn't know the local admin password for the machine I was working on here, so getting to the command prompt involved using a Win10 thumb drive to use as a recovery disk, which will let you into the command prompt without knowing the local admin password. It was smart enough to detect the system drive as encrypted with BitLocker and prompted me for the recovery key as I was dropping into the command prompt, so I didn't need to unlock from the command line. Just brought the shields down, rebooted and was able to log in with a domain admin account. Reset my local admin account password, resumed bitlocker and all was good.

    Thanks!!!

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    imchriskeele Mar 15, 2018 at 01:38am

    I have a surface 3
    after booting it sends me to bitlocker recovery screen, asking me to enter key no matter what i do it takes me to the

    'recovery' page

    Your PC/Dvice needs to be repaired
    A required file couldn't be accessed because your Bitlocker key wasn't loaded correctly

    Error code 0xc0210000

    You'll need to use recovery tools.. etc

    can anyone help?

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    joelm5 May 17, 2018 at 09:20pm

    What if I do not have the recovery Key? I am not able to proceed without it?

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    TheDimSide Aug 23, 2018 at 06:59pm

    I got to step 4 to unlock it, but it said that the syntax was incorrect. So I couldn't get any farther. Suggestions?

  • Pimiento
    spicehead-itdag Sep 22, 2018 at 02:33pm

    got to step 4 also couldnt go on wouldnt let me

  • Pimiento
    spicehead-54i9y Nov 6, 2018 at 09:38am

    Does this still work? As if you choose skip this drive it won't show the encrypted C drive but just the recovery C drive.

    EDIT -

    Appears on my setup the encrypt C drive gets the letter D when trying to do recovery.

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    Tiffany4128 May 30, 2019 at 04:48pm

    Thank you - this worked great! For those getting the syntax error on step four leave out the <> before and after the key. Just enter the key on it's own. Also - the drive letter for me was d: rather than c.

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    spicehead-8sjpm Jun 1, 2019 at 07:25pm

    This worked but now I am unable to use the password for unlocking BitLocker. Systems accepts the password and then hangs on Windows logo.

    Unlocking with Recover key works every time.

    Any ideas?

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    spicehead-zaopj Jul 26, 2019 at 09:56am

    Gosh, I don't know how to thank you. I lost all my hope when I saw that the bitlocker recovery is looping but you made my day :) Thanks thanks thanks thanks

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    spicehead-he2wo Jan 23, 2020 at 05:23am

    Hi all,

    After resuming protection, and after restart again it is going to preparing bitlocker recovery loop..any suggestions??