External USB Hard Drive Data Recovery

[alloy36]

Hi,

At our workplace, we have to have our hard drives encrypted by using bitlocker. After getting sick and tired of taking stuff home on a usb stick to copy onto my hard drive, I decided to just encrypt my hardrive at work.

It started off ok, but it was taking too long. I left my PC on overnight thinking it will be all encrypted by the morning. Unfortunately not.

The machine has somehow switched itself off overnight and now I get an error on my hardrive with all copies of my work for the last years gone!!

I spoke to our IT who couldn't really do anything about it. I have the password and 48 digit passcode but neither work. Time to get a data recovery specialist. How much should this cost and is there anyone reliable in West Yorkshire?

Many thanks in advance

[marshalla]

Have you tried a bitlocker repair ?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee5232...

and where's your backup ? It may be the only way.

[alloy36]

Yes, I've tried to use the bitlocker repair tool but for some reason the hard drive doesn't recognise my bitlocker password or data recovery key

Anyone had any good experience with a data recovery specialist?

[Beetnik]

We're based in Leeds and used Data Clinic (dataclinic.co.uk) about 4 years ago to recover data from a damaged bitlocker encrypted drive. Cost £300. No physical workshop in Leeds - they used an accommodation suite on Geldard Road which, frankly, didn't fill me with confidence at the time when I dropped the machine off. Nevertheless they did the business, did it quickly and I'd certainly recommend them.

Edited by Beetnik on Tuesday 28th June 21:31