Recover AES256 encrypted directories and files WITH key

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I am on Windows 10, but could boot up Ubuntu or similar if that helps.

I have an external hard drive where the automatic decryption is down. I can access the data on the drive in raw form and I have the eDEK, the key that was used for encryption, so I should theoretically be able to use that to decrypt. Most of the solutions I have found however to manually run AES256 decryption are file or text based so I'm not sure how to proceed when the directory structure itself may be encrypted.

Should I make a full image and then try to decrypt that en masse? Is there some software that can function in place of the nonfunctional hardware decryption to at least view and copy the files and directories on the fly?

The drive does not mount though I see it as a USB device. Disk Management (win10) shows it as an un-initialized volume. DM wants me to initialize it but I am concerned that this may overwite data already there and make it unusable.

I am able to read it on a sector basis using Active@ Disk Editor.
 

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From the description it only handles OS type encryption like EFS. I'm looking more for a tool that allows you to encrypt and decrypt a file structure using AES 256.