Bitlocker External HDD password recovery help?

Question

yeah um i need help, my sister got an iomega 1tb external hard drive and she was putting all her music on her external hard drive just to free up some space. The thing is that she encrypted her hard drive with Bitlocker a couple of days ago just to protect her hard drive and now she does not know the password.She does have the recovery key but she does not know how to use it. Any help

Oh and she also wanted to know of formatting the external hard drive would get rid of the password (she does not care anymore if she lose all her music in it)

So any advice?

Also her External HDD is an NTFS system

Answer 1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2786fde9-5986-4ed6-8fe4-f88e2492a5bd&displaylang=en



BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer for Active Directory Users and Computers tool



Brief Description



The Bitlocker Active Directory Recovery Password Viewer helps to locate BitLocker Drive Encryption recovery passwords for Windows Vista- or Windows Server 2008- based computers in Active Directory Domain Services



http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd875531%28WS.10%29.aspx



Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2



The BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer helps to locate BitLocker Drive Encryption recovery passwords for computers running Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2008 in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). This tool is now part of Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7.



This tool lets you locate and view BitLocker recovery passwords that are stored in AD DS. You can use this tool to help recover data that is stored on a drive that has been encrypted by using BitLocker. The BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer tool is an extension for the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. Using this tool, you can examine a computer object's Properties dialog box to view the corresponding BitLocker recovery passwords. Additionally, you can right-click a domain container and then search for a BitLocker recovery password across all the domains in the Active Directory forest.



RSAT for Windows 7 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2003, from a remote computer that is running Windows 7. This feature is comparable in functionality to the Windows Server 2003 Administrative Tools Pack and RSAT for Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1).



For more information about RSAT for Windows 7, see Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 in the Microsoft Download Center (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167131).

Answer 2

Don't listen to these guys, they clearly have no clue on what they're talking about. I am a developer at Microsoft so I know a thing or two about computers. The only way to reset your windows password 100% safe is to use a software called Reset Password Pro.



The software allows you to create a boot-disk, that can be made on a CD/DVD or USB stick. The boot-disk can then be inserted into any locked machine, and it's a simple case of pressing reset. Here is their official site: http://www.resetwindowspass.com

Answer 3

She can try and see if it can be, formatted.