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  • Phoenix83
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 53
    • Slovakia
    #1

    Locked HDD

    Hi
    Friend bought a laptop from the internet and the HDD is locked. It's saying:
    This drive is locked by bitlocker drive encryption, or something like this. Previous owner said that the password doesn't know. Any chance to unlock it?
    Don't think so. Probably he will have to buy a new HDD.
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    • goontron
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      • Dec 2011
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      • US
      #2
      Re: Locked HDD

      with windos, IDK. but with a linux live disk "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" if its the only HDD in the computer. this will wipe EVERYTHING which works because bitlocker is at the partition or filesystem level. you will have to reinstall the OS.
      Last edited by goontron; 02-16-2014, 02:33 PM.
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        • domas
          News Hater
          • May 2013
          • 323
          • Denmark
          #3
          Re: Locked HDD

          http://superuser.com/questions/40880...with-bitlocker
          1 second on google

          you basically have to wipe the whole crap by deleting partitions, not formating them
          and you can do that in your preferred method, either by removing hard drive and using some controller or booting a cd without taking the hdd out (it can be windows cd, some linux live cd, etc)

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            • Phoenix83
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2014
              • 53
              • Slovakia
              #4
              Re: Locked HDD

              ok. it's done.
              Now installing the Win.

              Thanks

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