Bitlocker raw drive recover

Question

I connected a new ssd to the computer, deleted the windows partition on the old hdd, and installed windows on the new ssd. Now the partition that was encrypted by bitlocker on my old hdd has become a raw partition. Tried many ways but it didn't work, how to bring it back my data?

Answer 1

Hi ice-coffee123,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

1

What method did you use to delete the Windows partition on the old drive and did you only delete the C drive partition.

2

Was there a separate partition on the old drive that contained data that was encrypted with Bitlocker and now the whole drive is now marked as unallocated with no partitions showing?

Do you have another PC you can connect the old drive up to to see if the other partition is showing on that PC?

Answer 2

Thanks for reply and still not fixed.

I has two partition on old hdd.

1. I boot a windows installation pen drive click install in drive selection, I just deleted old hdd windows drive. And I restarted my pc and now showing other partition as a raw drive and not detected as a bitlocker encrypted drive. When i try to open it asking to format disk. But after many try, I can recover files from my drive but all files are encrypted and file structure, names changed. Is there any way to get my files back?

I tried so many ways like cmd, recover software but Is their any way to get my files?

Answer 3

2. Partition is showing as a unallocated. Can't open, asking to format the drive.

Answer 4

Hi ice-coffee123,

File Recovery on a Bitlocker drive is rarely successful, what method or utility are you using to restore the files?

Answer 5

Using a free recovery software.

Large file type as a .swf files.