Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

Question

anyone know how to recover data on external drive?

Jan 24, 2012 11:57AM PST

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.

Discussion is locked