Bitlocker Decryption has been pauzed and cant resume

Question

I was decrypting my hard drive when my son nokt the hard drive of the pc and was disconnected . now when I connected the hard drive bitlocker decrypting is pauzed and cant resume "The bitlocker metadata for encrypted drive is not valid" when I tried:

1. Open the command prompt as admin.
2. Type in **manage-bde –off <F> **and hit Enter. (the drive is F)   

Command prompt says "the syntax of the command is incorrect"

Also the hard drive is in a Read-only mode

Answer 1

Hello

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

The error message "The BitLocker metadata for the encrypted drive is not valid" indicates that the metadata on the drive is corrupted. You can use the repair-bde command-line tool to repair the drive and recover the encrypted data to another drive

Here is a basic example of how to use the repair-bde command:

1. Open the command prompt as an administrator.
2. Type in the following command and hit Enter:
3. repair-bde F: X: -rk <path_to_recovery_key> -lf <path_to_log_file>

Replace F: with the letter of your encrypted drive, X: with the letter of the drive where you want to store the recovered data, <path_to_recovery_key> with the path to your BitLocker recovery key, and <path_to_log_file> with the path to a log file where you want to store error messages.

 

I hope the information above is helpful.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,

Daisy Zhou

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