I have a Bitlocked drive in. The drive had about 20,000 bad sectors which we got down to about 1,000. However the drive will not accept the password, so I presume we are unlucky and the Bitlocker info is stored on one of the bad sectors (they do not have a .bek file). The drive has two partitions. One main which it Bitlocked and a BDE partition of about 30MB which is not locked.

Any idea where the BitLocker information is normally stored on drives so I can target recovering these sectors so see if we can get the data?

_________________
HDD, SSD, Flash and RAID Data Recovery
Founder of The Data Recovery Professionals Group

look at repair bde tool to decrypt

_________________
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you probably don't fully understand the situation. ... Mr Kipling

https://www.mjm.co.uk/

Is it asking you to enter a key or a password. These are distinct from each other

_________________
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you probably don't fully understand the situation. ... Mr Kipling

https://www.mjm.co.uk/

I have tried the repair tool with no joy. I do have both the key and the password.

_________________
HDD, SSD, Flash and RAID Data Recovery
Founder of The Data Recovery Professionals Group

You might try this:
http://support.passware.com/hc/en-us/ar ... Encryption

but i never used it

_________________
My firmware database:
https://mega.nz/folder/O01DkBRI

or this
https://www.elcomsoft.com/efdd.html

_________________
My firmware database:
https://mega.nz/folder/O01DkBRI

If Windows asks you to type in the recovery password and it shows recovery password GUID then all Bitlocker metadata has been read correctly

_________________
SAN, NAS, RAID, Server, and HDD Data Recovery.

try this

https://www.m3datarecovery.com/bitlocke ... -recovery/

how about imaging the drive sector by sector to another drive and force decryption on clone drive by using recovery key :

read here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee523219(WS.10).aspx

_________________
Data Recovery Pakistan

Thanks for all the help. We did recover the data thanks to a PM.

_________________
HDD, SSD, Flash and RAID Data Recovery
Founder of The Data Recovery Professionals Group

Which method did you use to recover data?

_________________
My firmware database:
https://mega.nz/folder/O01DkBRI

Mounting the drive with PC3K. DE can now mount BitLocker encrypted drives. Not sure why DE succeeded in accepting the password key when all the above programs detailed above failed, but it did.

_________________
HDD, SSD, Flash and RAID Data Recovery
Founder of The Data Recovery Professionals Group