PA pro reports "No partition found" whilst correctly listing all partitions: bitlocker suspected
Hello.
PA Pro Partition Recovery Wizard thinks all my partitions are unformatted even when run under win 10, where the main PA window knows they are 'Bitlocker Encrypted'. Logged on to Win10, all five visible partitions can be accessed. Under Safe CMD, after bitlocker recovery key for C:, all visible partitions can be accessed. I read that PA is Bitlocker compatible: how do I inform PA of that?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mike
Some more information.
I'm trying to recover a laptop broken by OneDrive. Win10 can't complete any command, e.g., Win-E never gets to the end of the blue 'indexing' sweeping bar. I think OD gathered up files from multiple partitions on a 1Tb SSD and tried to write them all back, thus exceeding the available disk space.
Chkdsk from safe CMD finds no lost or orphaned clusters or files on any partition: but reported the wrong labels vs. drives. Safe CMD thinks I have C/D/E/F/G, but the prior labels were C/P/G/F/W. Partition Recovery Wizard correctly finds C/P/G/F/W but reports all as 'Unformatted' except hidden *system, and *Windows RE, from where I think it is running.
To get to safe CMD I must enter a bitlocker key for C:, after which it can access all the partitions even if the identifier is wrong. PA Recovery Wizard doesn't ask for a BL key, sees every visible partition as empty, has has no partitions to select: which is probably a good thing as it thinks they are all empty. From within Win10, PA sees the SSD, all partitions with correct labels, but without usage, instead showing blank with the description 'Bitlocker Encrypted'. Partition Recovery Wizard starts in the same place as WIn10 but exchanges 'Bitlocker' for 'Unformatted', with the same result: 'No partitions found'.
PA Pro Partition Recovery Wizard thinks all my partitions are unformatted even when run under win 10, where the main PA window knows they are 'Bitlocker Encrypted'. Logged on to Win10, all five visible partitions can be accessed. Under Safe CMD, after bitlocker recovery key for C:, all visible partitions can be accessed. I read that PA is Bitlocker compatible: how do I inform PA of that?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mike
Some more information.
I'm trying to recover a laptop broken by OneDrive. Win10 can't complete any command, e.g., Win-E never gets to the end of the blue 'indexing' sweeping bar. I think OD gathered up files from multiple partitions on a 1Tb SSD and tried to write them all back, thus exceeding the available disk space.
Chkdsk from safe CMD finds no lost or orphaned clusters or files on any partition: but reported the wrong labels vs. drives. Safe CMD thinks I have C/D/E/F/G, but the prior labels were C/P/G/F/W. Partition Recovery Wizard correctly finds C/P/G/F/W but reports all as 'Unformatted' except hidden *system, and *Windows RE, from where I think it is running.
To get to safe CMD I must enter a bitlocker key for C:, after which it can access all the partitions even if the identifier is wrong. PA Recovery Wizard doesn't ask for a BL key, sees every visible partition as empty, has has no partitions to select: which is probably a good thing as it thinks they are all empty. From within Win10, PA sees the SSD, all partitions with correct labels, but without usage, instead showing blank with the description 'Bitlocker Encrypted'. Partition Recovery Wizard starts in the same place as WIn10 but exchanges 'Bitlocker' for 'Unformatted', with the same result: 'No partitions found'.
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