How to Unlock a Windows 7 Computer Locked by BitLocker Drive Encryption
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bit locker is not responding on entering correct password
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Anonymous
Hello technicians, I am in distress.
I have my research thesis in my external 3TB western digital hard drive.
The drive is just 5 months old. Yesterday after I resumed my PC (Win7) from hibernation, I couldn't unlock my external USB mass storage hard disk drive. As I entered the correct password, the cursor went busy, and after that the bit locker window freezed and it showed not responding.
Since I tried safe mode, it shows the disk is not accessible, may be due to its encryption, or something else.
In clean boot, the problem persists.
In another desktop also the problem is same. As I enter the password, the window hangs and shows not responding.
On entering recovery key, the window shows again "not responding" and hangs.
I am using windows 7.
The drive was fully encrypted and was running all brilliant before this event suddenly happened.
Kindly tell me, how can I fix this issue.
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Anonymous
2022-01-08T20:30:22+00:00 -
Anonymous
2022-01-10T07:07:15+00:00 Didn't work.
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Anonymous
2022-01-14T10:31:45+00:00 Didn't work.
As BitLocker is for the security of Data, i can't help you.