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| Thread ID: 119705 | 2011-08-06 05:37:00 | Hard Drive Bad Sectors, With a Twist | Lucas (16493) | Press F1 |
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| 1221271 | 2011-08-07 11:22:00 | I have just gotten permission from WD to open the case, without voiding the warranty. The supervisor sympathizes with me, he had a similar issue. What can i do now that I have permission to open it? But it probably wont do much seeing as I have BitLocker on my drive... | Lucas (16493) | ||
| 1221272 | 2011-08-07 11:55:00 | Do you know what the 48 digit recovery key is?? Do you have access to Vista? There is a tool but its for Vista and XP. But doesnt work in Windows 7 (support.microsoft.com) And here (support.microsoft.com) Did you put the key on something like a USB flash drive?? There is a command called Repair-bde on the windows 7 DVD. Its also in the system32 folder. See step 7 in the first link |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1221273 | 2011-08-07 22:26:00 | Oh Crap -- yes having a drive encrypted makes a huge difference, not even a live Linux will bypass that. You still should be able to see the drive though, just not get into into it without the Encryption key. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1221274 | 2011-08-07 22:59:00 | If you go into disk management does it show up there? right click my computer, select manage, go to disk management. Drives that windows sees as unformatted etc show up here. Also I don't know if this is applicable to portable drives but I've had windows unassign drive letters before and had to go in and manually assign a drive letter to get it back. If you can get the drive to show up on my computer the obvious thing to try would be a full scandisk check. If as it seems from previous posts there's a problem with the enclosures usb controller you may have to remove it as suggested. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1221275 | 2011-08-07 23:19:00 | It says what I posted in post #18, if you go to disk management. I didnt select anything, in case it formatted it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1221276 | 2011-08-08 07:20:00 | Do you know what the 48 digit recovery key is?? Do you have access to Vista? There is a tool but its for Vista and XP. But doesnt work in Windows 7 (support.microsoft.com) And here (support.microsoft.com) Did you put the key on something like a USB flash drive?? There is a command called Repair-bde on the windows 7 DVD. Its also in the system32 folder. See step 7 in the first link I printed out the 48 digit code, so that isnt a problem, but unfortunately, no access to vista, but ill try on W7 |
Lucas (16493) | ||
| 1221277 | 2011-08-08 08:05:00 | Is it Bitlocker or is the encryption provided by the drive itself? If the USB chipset on the controller board ends with E it probably means it uses encryption also. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1221278 | 2011-08-08 08:18:00 | The drive was unencrypted when purchased, I then used the service/program in windows called BitLocker to encrypted the drive | Lucas (16493) | ||
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