I own an external hard drive of 500GB Seagate Go in which i have stored many valuable data. While encrypting this drive accidentally the laptop {in which i am using Windows7) went off the encryption was 14% done and the drive was set to auto-unlock on my laptop. when i restarted the my laptop was unable to unlock the drive (It's reading the drive but not showing on windows explorer and i tried to mange it from bitlocker drive encryption in control panel but bitlocker stopped responding) so I tried to unlock this on my friend's computer but again the same thing happened after that i tried other steps from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprosecurity/thread/58e44671-0cf0-480b-9668-3876c30752a9 and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd875513%28WS.10%29.aspx but nothing seems to work out. suppose the other information needed are as follows: BitLocker Drive Encryption Recovery Key The recovery key is used to recover the data on a BitLocker protected drive. To verify that this is the correct recovery key compare the identification with what is presented on the recovery screen. Recovery key identification: 516G88BE-4141-42 Full recovery key identification: 516F88BE-4141-42D8-A247-4997D3F57FDA BitLocker Recovery Key: 002222-524418-454245-683046-498575-639173-447513-068464 Unlock Password: happiness guide me through the specific steps and also let me know how much time is it gonna take. Please help me out. Thanks in advance

It looks like the encryption process never completed. Open elevated command prompt: >manage-bde -status D: where D is the drive letter. To unlock the volume try this >manage-bde -unlock D: -pw Type Enter and if it prompts for password supply that To unlock the volume using 48 digit recovery password try this >manage-bde -unlock D: -rp 002222-524418-454245-683046-498575-639173-447513-068464 Let me know how it goes.Manoj Sehgal

Hey Manoj Yeah you are right the encryption never completed. I tried your suggestion but whenever I press enter a white cursor blinks n nothing else this same thing happened when i tried the previous steps. Hope you can help me with that. One more thing the drive was working fine in the partial encryption mode when it wasn't set to auto unlock. Thanks for suggestion and time.

common tech net guys help me out...i really need it...

You have to tell me what happens when you run the below commands. Open elevated command prompt: Did you try to turn off encryption by using this command. >manage-bde -off d: where D is the drive letter. >manage-bde -status D: where D is the drive letter. To unlock the volume try this >manage-bde -unlock D: -pw Type Enter and if it prompts for password supply that To unlock the volume using 48 digit recovery password try this >manage-bde -unlock D: -rp 002222-524418-454245-683046-498575-639173-447513-068464 If none of these work for you then use repair-bde command to get the data from the volume. Attach a 500GB external portable disk same size as your original disk. >repair-bde D: G: -rp 002222-524418-454245-683046-498575-639173-447513-068464 -f -lf c:\log.txt where D is the original Disk and G is the drive new portable disk. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee706528(WS.10).aspx Let me know how it goes.Manoj Sehgal

i tried it n it's not working getting the same...the cursor blinks any other way please thanks

Did you find a solution? I have the same problem :( http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-TT/w7itprosecurity/thread/26e14d5e-6b43-47f8-89bf-b3a4dc5fe4ba