Windows Bit Locker Locked Out

[yking]

I am working with an army regiment. The HDD of the Commandant's PC is encrypted with BitLocker and the key and recovery key are lost. The PC was never connected to the internet. Now I need to retrieve all the data from that HDD.  

[Levent]

Its over for that data. We also cannot help you with that here.

[yking]

9 minutes ago, Levent said:

Its over for that data. We also cannot help you with that here.

Any help from forensic software ?
found this video , can this be recreated ?

 

[Sawa Takahashi]

2 hours ago, yking said:

I am working with an army regiment. The HDD of the Commandant's PC is encrypted with BitLocker and the key and recovery key are lost. The PC was never connected to the internet. Now I need to retrieve all the data from that HDD.  

Bitlocker is meant to be really hard to cracbk with consummer grade hardware. Maybe if you can use some supercomputer (the army surely has a few), you may be able to bypass bitlocker encryption in a reasonable amount of time.

As for why you can't ask that question on this forum, it is because even if it is useful to you, the answer could greatly help hackers with bad intentions.

Have a nice day !

[ieleja]

2 hours ago, yking said:

HDD is encrypted with BitLocker and the key and recovery key are lost

but what happen with plain login:password?

[Sawa Takahashi]

1 hour ago, ieleja said:

but what happen with plain login:password?

I agree. There is nowhere in the OP that mentioned that the computer is non-functional. We just assumed.

If the computer is still in working state, you can just login and copy the data to an external drive.

 

[yking]

7 minutes ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

I agree. There is nowhere in the OP that mentioned that the computer is non-functional. We just assumed.

If the computer is still in working state, you can just login and copy the data to an external drive.

 

The actual login key is also missing, no one knows it

[yking]

2 hours ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

Bitlocker is meant to be really hard to cracbk with consummer grade hardware. Maybe if you can use some supercomputer (the army surely has a few), you may be able to bypass bitlocker encryption in a reasonable amount of time.

As for why you can't ask that question on this forum, it is because even if it is useful to you, the answer could greatly help hackers with bad intentions.

Have a nice day !

Well , your point is totally genuine, still I was looking for some alternative other than the brute force attack 

[yking]

1 hour ago, ieleja said:

but what happen with plain login:password?

The plain id password is missing, know one knows it , it is boot device and due to multiple failed login attempts , it's asking for recovery key, which is also missing 

[Sawa Takahashi]

2 hours ago, yking said:

The plain id password is missing, know one knows it , it is boot device and due to multiple failed login attempts , it's asking for recovery key, which is also missing 

I know how to reinitialize a Windows password but in doing so, you lose the bitlocker key. Not useful if you want to recover the data.

[Alan G]

If it is a government computer and information is really needed, the only option I see is to send it off to the NSA who might have the tools to recover it.  That would all be within the government.  I'm not trying to be flippant here but only noting that we cannot really help you and the NSA might.

[NumLock21]

Is recovery key somewhat only saved on the drive you want to access?