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Hello there!

I do have a broken 1.5 TB hard drive. S.M.A.R.T. tests C5 and C6 are at 198/199.
R/W speeds are basically non existent. It was enrypted by bitlocker and Windows currently tries to decrpyt it but doesn't move on. 

I wanted to save the data from this drive but (i guess) due to bitlocker using all the capacity left on this drive i can't. Does anybody have an idea how to get to the data? I thought about mirroring the drive sector by sector but unfortunally I do not have a drive big enought for the whole partition allthough only about 700 gb of Data is used. But with bitlocker activated i cant just shrink the partition.

Thanks!

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16 minutes ago, Stawi said:

Hello there!

I do have a broken 1.5 TB hard drive. S.M.A.R.T. tests C5 and C6 are at 198/199.
R/W speeds are basically non existent. It was enrypted by bitlocker and Windows currently tries to decrpyt it but doesn't move on. 

I wanted to save the data from this drive but (i guess) due to bitlocker using all the capacity left on this drive i can't. Does anybody have an idea how to get to the data? I thought about mirroring the drive sector by sector but unfortunally I do not have a drive big enought for the whole partition allthough only about 700 gb of Data is used. But with bitlocker activated i cant just shrink the partition.

Thanks!

Easy way would be to buy a small HDD For cheap and then mirror the sector as you say. Shouldn't cost more than $20-$30.

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mirroring might work, but with errors like that, you may not be able to get a clean copy.

 

Buying a 1TB HDD?  Should be dirt cheap today, they're not expensive.  (Or buy a 1TB SSD and then reuse it for something else after, and not have a HDD.)

 

but, again, getting data off the drive is gonna be hit or miss.  If it's that important, pay to get the data off from a pro company.

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Find a drive withat least 1.5TB free, then try using ddrescue to copy the raw sectors to an image.

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Just now, OkenRecnam said:

Cloning the drive would be your best option. You do have the Bitlocker recovery code to access the data, right?

Yes, Recovery key is available. Guess I'd need to get a bigger Hard drive then.. Cloning a smaller partition from this drive that was not bitlocker encrypted seems to have worked fine. 

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