i had a 250gb western digital external drive, which i had encrypted with bitlocker. my system crashed and i cannot access the drive any longer..add to the misery, i dont have a password and the recovery key, which i lost somewhere.
Stupid me!, i didnt know what else to do, so i decided to re-format the drive(i know i dropped my brain)..so now i do not know whether i can still recover any data from that drive, and if i can the other question would be will i still able to access it since, im not sure if bitlocker screwed me for good.

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