External USB Hard Drive Data Recovery

External USB Hard Drive Data Recovery

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alloy36

Original Poster:

40 posts

174 months

Friday 24th June 2016
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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

alloy36

Original Poster:

40 posts

174 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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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 frown

Anyone had any good experience with a data recovery specialist?