Bitlocker Encryption Failed and Decryption Stuck
Hi Microsoft Admin Last Thursday I tried to use bitlocker on my drive E. C is my OS drive. Drive E is only for data and documents, which was why i was hoping I could lock it. When I ran bitlocker and start the encryption, it stopped on 25%. It didn't give me any option to cancel or else, it also frozen my laptop. So there was no any other way, I had to force restarted it. But it ruined everything .. I can not access my drive E, even using the recovery password. It's encrypted but not completely, corrupted. I've tried many things thene I found the way to decrypt Bitlocker drive using Bitlocker recovery tools, on scenarion 16. I recover my E to my External harddrive using this syntax : repair-bde E: I: -force -rp [recovery password] I am doing it now, it works .. but only til it reached 25% too, just like the encryption process before. Now it really really stop at 25%, been 1 hour like this. What should i do now ? I really need your help, because all of my project data and work documents are in that drive.. thank you
May 20th, 2011 9:07am

now my external harddrive corrupted too because of bitlocker uffff....
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May 20th, 2011 9:33am

Is it still stuck at 25% or it made progress? If it is still stuck at 25% then it has encounter a bad block on the disk. That was the reason the bde never completed successfully at first place. you need to search a get a tool from internet which can mark bad block and after this repair-bde might work for you and you can access the data.Manoj Sehgal
May 25th, 2011 12:55am

Hi, Base my knowledge, The BitLocker encryption and decryption processes can be interrupted by turning the computer off, and it will resume where it left off the next time Windows starts. This is true even if the power is suddenly unavailable. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766200%28WS.10%29.aspx#BKMK_TurnOff I recommend that you may use the BitLocker Repair Tool to recover the driver, for more information : Using the BitLocker Repair Tool to Recover a Drive
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May 26th, 2011 4:38am

Willy_Zeng my friend, shalli17here is already using bitlocker repair tool which is repair-bde command. Since it got stuck at 25% on I drive do you see any data?? you need to search a get a tool from internet which can mark bad block and after this repair-bde might work for you and you can access the data.Manoj Sehgal
May 28th, 2011 12:33am

Hi i have a samsung 500gigs that i used on windows 7 ultimate which i partitioned to 150g and 350g, so i locked the 350g partition with bitlocker and yesterday i decided to remove bitlocker on that partition and there was a power failure while the decryption was on 2% after that i switched on the computer and it freeze on the Microsoft windows screen but if i disconnect the drive windows will open just fine. So i tried to put it to connect it with a external usb and the first partition is there on my computer and the bitlocked partition doesn't appear at all i even tried to connect on a windows XP machine it opened and the bitlocked partition wants to format.. Please help coz i wanted to try the (repair-bde) command but i don't know how to specify the drive letter because it doesn't appear on my computer only the ather partition wich was not locked appears
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August 7th, 2011 6:57pm

Try using the BitLocker Repair Tool that can be downloaded from here- http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=17294 Hope it helps!Kunal D Mehta - a Windows Server Enthusiast.
August 7th, 2011 10:18pm

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