Bitlocker failure NEED HELP

Tadej981

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Sep 4, 2013
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Recently I have encrypted my 3 Tb drive (with very IMPORTANT data) with Bitlocker. Everything was working fine. I often hibernated my PC (Win 7) and everything was fine. Until last time. When I tried to acess the disk a window opened "you need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it". I clicked cancel. A window opened

"H: is not accessible
the volume does not contain a recognised file system.
..."

If I look to disk managment it says, that a H: drive has a RAW file system.

If I go to control panel and bitlocker settings it says, that there are no external drives in computer.

I tried to reset the computer and replugging the drive. No changes.

I have both password and recovery key.

There are no dead sectors on the drive.

Any help appreciated, thanks in advance
 
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+1. This is very true. At this point, if none of the scenarios helped, I would assume the data is gone and unrecoverable.

COLGeek

Cybernaut
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+1. This is very true. At this point, if none of the scenarios helped, I would assume the data is gone and unrecoverable.
 
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