TEXT/TXt file corrupyed or unreadable
Like so many people I have seen post about this, I can't remember my Bitlocker password. I set it up 8 years ago and haven't needed to access an old drive in a long time. I came across it the other day, and before I throw it out I'd like to make sure it doesn't have items on it I needed as at one point it was an old desktop hard drive I had, and removed when I bought a new PC.
I had saved the recovery password to a thumb drive. And in my infinite wisdom, saved stuff over it at some point. I was able to recover the file, kind of. It shows a TXT and TEXT file, and both have the right file name which shows the right Key ID on it. But when I open them, it looks like a bunch of nonsense. Here is what appears:
㼐뮯튡穪裷疠럒褡ﴷ伀觭簔ꩃྣﲅ샺㯒茛鋊醣㽠篕ű劔嶝䚗䤞䔬쏚蛺￤脀乗䨺᷑ｙ圀䰍꧀志?섀깆璞次꿾䰝詅랂킷ÿ﵁쁘㫩쯓慎枿㍍ꥋ튥ᨉ皭偦伙唥龾潏ᩩ幫튼핐�痓ꁌ嘖墳莛轻맵麮瞚䄜첧൵ᱪdž㥢윭翶鼾ﻅ嗕�㷲鉆ũ䡲愭ꝯﯺⓘ踚펴ᨣ펓䡳ಗ偿휬烓（礀䚨杘殫ᡖ௫꣏㞕怷㼀佟⫔㷾䏯Ű缊䰃㇔ꚾℶﺯﴍ뼸⸋焺鈆ཋ헓⎫湲괬䪥垏폩ﳸ㵽ந㫨ᓳ�쭏ከ�ⵔவ狼㤔ꝡ읯閽꼣ᄙ敇葺뢱ꟽ〜漷㲯ÿ�წ亓릒鴀퍇忽忱岟奅䶬Ã퐈Ñ鳧㐀ꭿ哪青ﶵ氬阆풿ÿ㵎䆴娝ᬲᯫ뚐쭐㖡爍䵿ÿ붯ྭ鐞龲ﳃ芺꺵ַ㖋᫈륈봚ﴧ붷㵩갶摑冬ꦨ�謋ﹳﾨ씀�❣鞧ꠣ⫯އ䥒崡ꑍꖃ啕잏榻乯뒔鲄붠荅쁺鞻鄄羨ﶴ鼾䁜⏓䢪䗡�⯪蠬痶�욫쯬틩뿚ầ䣓躀䜝贲쁈Ⰶ쀅繛巷픋敁煬웩耪࿅俶픣ﻉￍ�䯻Ԣ㗂褣巾栨칒謕␍ﴛ罬뵍쭞ᮮ䝌廽ꅣ툞㰉靿틙Ώ硵᳁堛媀绠뽙弜廘�땭螺鍿蔖ᮘඛ쐢潰௵⇬䡼佣烵只Π￬✀♂㔤䢕倶辿뾩翔㷅澃車翰軕㶥Ʀ䖥픿蒎恼숏ﰸ巟弿낯䔣闺ÿݕ乒Ǘ隍⾟瓲ꎶ㐊澀꜎냟ߕ齗᷻똏꿔䁡ᮄ炓ɬ釛㳾৻俟꽌룺ぴ记慎㢽꽴놣渪
The files are only 1KB. Is there any way for me to repair this or decipher it into my recovery key? I normally wouldn't care, but from what I have read, this TEXT file is my only hope of ever unlocking that drive. I recovered this file, but obviously not a full recovery. I am wondering if it was damaged when I saved over it, and maybe it can never be repaired or fully recovered. I have the thumb drive still.
restore bitlocker repair recovery
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Like so many people I have seen post about this, I can't remember my Bitlocker password. I set it up 8 years ago and haven't needed to access an old drive in a long time. I came across it the other day, and before I throw it out I'd like to make sure it doesn't have items on it I needed as at one point it was an old desktop hard drive I had, and removed when I bought a new PC.
I had saved the recovery password to a thumb drive. And in my infinite wisdom, saved stuff over it at some point. I was able to recover the file, kind of. It shows a TXT and TEXT file, and both have the right file name which shows the right Key ID on it. But when I open them, it looks like a bunch of nonsense. Here is what appears:
㼐뮯튡穪裷疠럒褡ﴷ伀觭簔ꩃྣﲅ샺㯒茛鋊醣㽠篕ű劔嶝䚗䤞䔬쏚蛺￤脀乗䨺᷑ｙ圀䰍꧀志?섀깆璞次꿾䰝詅랂킷ÿ﵁쁘㫩쯓慎枿㍍ꥋ튥ᨉ皭偦伙唥龾潏ᩩ幫튼핐�痓ꁌ嘖墳莛轻맵麮瞚䄜첧൵ᱪdž㥢윭翶鼾ﻅ嗕�㷲鉆ũ䡲愭ꝯﯺⓘ踚펴ᨣ펓䡳ಗ偿휬烓（礀䚨杘殫ᡖ௫꣏㞕怷㼀佟⫔㷾䏯Ű缊䰃㇔ꚾℶﺯﴍ뼸⸋焺鈆ཋ헓⎫湲괬䪥垏폩ﳸ㵽ந㫨ᓳ�쭏ከ�ⵔவ狼㤔ꝡ읯閽꼣ᄙ敇葺뢱ꟽ〜漷㲯ÿ�წ亓릒鴀퍇忽忱岟奅䶬Ã퐈Ñ鳧㐀ꭿ哪青ﶵ氬阆풿ÿ㵎䆴娝ᬲᯫ뚐쭐㖡爍䵿ÿ붯ྭ鐞龲ﳃ芺꺵ַ㖋᫈륈봚ﴧ붷㵩갶摑冬ꦨ�謋ﹳﾨ씀�❣鞧ꠣ⫯އ䥒崡ꑍꖃ啕잏榻乯뒔鲄붠荅쁺鞻鄄羨ﶴ鼾䁜⏓䢪䗡�⯪蠬痶�욫쯬틩뿚ầ䣓躀䜝贲쁈Ⰶ쀅繛巷픋敁煬웩耪࿅俶픣ﻉￍ�䯻Ԣ㗂褣巾栨칒謕␍ﴛ罬뵍쭞ᮮ䝌廽ꅣ툞㰉靿틙Ώ硵᳁堛媀绠뽙弜廘�땭螺鍿蔖ᮘඛ쐢潰௵⇬䡼佣烵只Π￬✀♂㔤䢕倶辿뾩翔㷅澃車翰軕㶥Ʀ䖥픿蒎恼숏ﰸ巟弿낯䔣闺ÿݕ乒Ǘ隍⾟瓲ꎶ㐊澀꜎냟ߕ齗᷻똏꿔䁡ᮄ炓ɬ釛㳾৻俟꽌룺ぴ记慎㢽꽴놣渪
The files are only 1KB. Is there any way for me to repair this or decipher it into my recovery key? I normally wouldn't care, but from what I have read, this TEXT file is my only hope of ever unlocking that drive. I recovered this file, but obviously not a full recovery. I am wondering if it was damaged when I saved over it, and maybe it can never be repaired or fully recovered. I have the thumb drive still.
restore bitlocker repair recovery
edited Jan 8 at 22:12
DavidPostill♦
105k25227260
asked Jan 8 at 3:44
Ryan JRyan J
1
1
Have you tried opening the file in a hex editor?
– Moab
Jan 8 at 13:58
No I haven't, I can give that a try!
– Ryan J
Jan 12 at 9:00
I tried doing that, but not sure what to make from the results.
– Ryan J
Jan 13 at 8:22
add a comment |
Like so many people I have seen post about this, I can't remember my Bitlocker password. I set it up 8 years ago and haven't needed to access an old drive in a long time. I came across it the other day, and before I throw it out I'd like to make sure it doesn't have items on it I needed as at one point it was an old desktop hard drive I had, and removed when I bought a new PC.
I had saved the recovery password to a thumb drive. And in my infinite wisdom, saved stuff over it at some point. I was able to recover the file, kind of. It shows a TXT and TEXT file, and both have the right file name which shows the right Key ID on it. But when I open them, it looks like a bunch of nonsense. Here is what appears:
㼐뮯튡穪裷疠럒褡ﴷ伀觭簔ꩃྣﲅ샺㯒茛鋊醣㽠篕ű劔嶝䚗䤞䔬쏚蛺￤脀乗䨺᷑ｙ圀䰍꧀志?섀깆璞次꿾䰝詅랂킷ÿ﵁쁘㫩쯓慎枿㍍ꥋ튥ᨉ皭偦伙唥龾潏ᩩ幫튼핐�痓ꁌ嘖墳莛轻맵麮瞚䄜첧൵ᱪdž㥢윭翶鼾ﻅ嗕�㷲鉆ũ䡲愭ꝯﯺⓘ踚펴ᨣ펓䡳ಗ偿휬烓（礀䚨杘殫ᡖ௫꣏㞕怷㼀佟⫔㷾䏯Ű缊䰃㇔ꚾℶﺯﴍ뼸⸋焺鈆ཋ헓⎫湲괬䪥垏폩ﳸ㵽ந㫨ᓳ�쭏ከ�ⵔவ狼㤔ꝡ읯閽꼣ᄙ敇葺뢱ꟽ〜漷㲯ÿ�წ亓릒鴀퍇忽忱岟奅䶬Ã퐈Ñ鳧㐀ꭿ哪青ﶵ氬阆풿ÿ㵎䆴娝ᬲᯫ뚐쭐㖡爍䵿ÿ붯ྭ鐞龲ﳃ芺꺵ַ㖋᫈륈봚ﴧ붷㵩갶摑冬ꦨ�謋ﹳﾨ씀�❣鞧ꠣ⫯އ䥒崡ꑍꖃ啕잏榻乯뒔鲄붠荅쁺鞻鄄羨ﶴ鼾䁜⏓䢪䗡�⯪蠬痶�욫쯬틩뿚ầ䣓躀䜝贲쁈Ⰶ쀅繛巷픋敁煬웩耪࿅俶픣ﻉￍ�䯻Ԣ㗂褣巾栨칒謕␍ﴛ罬뵍쭞ᮮ䝌廽ꅣ툞㰉靿틙Ώ硵᳁堛媀绠뽙弜廘�땭螺鍿蔖ᮘඛ쐢潰௵⇬䡼佣烵只Π￬✀♂㔤䢕倶辿뾩翔㷅澃車翰軕㶥Ʀ䖥픿蒎恼숏ﰸ巟弿낯䔣闺ÿݕ乒Ǘ隍⾟瓲ꎶ㐊澀꜎냟ߕ齗᷻똏꿔䁡ᮄ炓ɬ釛㳾৻俟꽌룺ぴ记慎㢽꽴놣渪
The files are only 1KB. Is there any way for me to repair this or decipher it into my recovery key? I normally wouldn't care, but from what I have read, this TEXT file is my only hope of ever unlocking that drive. I recovered this file, but obviously not a full recovery. I am wondering if it was damaged when I saved over it, and maybe it can never be repaired or fully recovered. I have the thumb drive still.
restore bitlocker repair recovery
edited Jan 8 at 22:12
DavidPostill♦
105k25227260
asked Jan 8 at 3:44
Ryan JRyan J
1
Like so many people I have seen post about this, I can't remember my Bitlocker password. I set it up 8 years ago and haven't needed to access an old drive in a long time. I came across it the other day, and before I throw it out I'd like to make sure it doesn't have items on it I needed as at one point it was an old desktop hard drive I had, and removed when I bought a new PC.
I had saved the recovery password to a thumb drive. And in my infinite wisdom, saved stuff over it at some point. I was able to recover the file, kind of. It shows a TXT and TEXT file, and both have the right file name which shows the right Key ID on it. But when I open them, it looks like a bunch of nonsense. Here is what appears:
㼐뮯튡穪裷疠럒褡ﴷ伀觭簔ꩃྣﲅ샺㯒茛鋊醣㽠篕ű劔嶝䚗䤞䔬쏚蛺￤脀乗䨺᷑ｙ圀䰍꧀志?섀깆璞次꿾䰝詅랂킷ÿ﵁쁘㫩쯓慎枿㍍ꥋ튥ᨉ皭偦伙唥龾潏ᩩ幫튼핐�痓ꁌ嘖墳莛轻맵麮瞚䄜첧൵ᱪdž㥢윭翶鼾ﻅ嗕�㷲鉆ũ䡲愭ꝯﯺⓘ踚펴ᨣ펓䡳ಗ偿휬烓（礀䚨杘殫ᡖ௫꣏㞕怷㼀佟⫔㷾䏯Ű缊䰃㇔ꚾℶﺯﴍ뼸⸋焺鈆ཋ헓⎫湲괬䪥垏폩ﳸ㵽ந㫨ᓳ�쭏ከ�ⵔவ狼㤔ꝡ읯閽꼣ᄙ敇葺뢱ꟽ〜漷㲯ÿ�წ亓릒鴀퍇忽忱岟奅䶬Ã퐈Ñ鳧㐀ꭿ哪青ﶵ氬阆풿ÿ㵎䆴娝ᬲᯫ뚐쭐㖡爍䵿ÿ붯ྭ鐞龲ﳃ芺꺵ַ㖋᫈륈봚ﴧ붷㵩갶摑冬ꦨ�謋ﹳﾨ씀�❣鞧ꠣ⫯އ䥒崡ꑍꖃ啕잏榻乯뒔鲄붠荅쁺鞻鄄羨ﶴ鼾䁜⏓䢪䗡�⯪蠬痶�욫쯬틩뿚ầ䣓躀䜝贲쁈Ⰶ쀅繛巷픋敁煬웩耪࿅俶픣ﻉￍ�䯻Ԣ㗂褣巾栨칒謕␍ﴛ罬뵍쭞ᮮ䝌廽ꅣ툞㰉靿틙Ώ硵᳁堛媀绠뽙弜廘�땭螺鍿蔖ᮘඛ쐢潰௵⇬䡼佣烵只Π￬✀♂㔤䢕倶辿뾩翔㷅澃車翰軕㶥Ʀ䖥픿蒎恼숏ﰸ巟弿낯䔣闺ÿݕ乒Ǘ隍⾟瓲ꎶ㐊澀꜎냟ߕ齗᷻똏꿔䁡ᮄ炓ɬ釛㳾৻俟꽌룺ぴ记慎㢽꽴놣渪
The files are only 1KB. Is there any way for me to repair this or decipher it into my recovery key? I normally wouldn't care, but from what I have read, this TEXT file is my only hope of ever unlocking that drive. I recovered this file, but obviously not a full recovery. I am wondering if it was damaged when I saved over it, and maybe it can never be repaired or fully recovered. I have the thumb drive still.
restore bitlocker repair recovery
restore bitlocker repair recovery
edited Jan 8 at 22:12
DavidPostill♦
105k25227260
asked Jan 8 at 3:44
Ryan JRyan J
1
edited Jan 8 at 22:12
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asked Jan 8 at 3:44
Ryan JRyan J
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edited Jan 8 at 22:12
DavidPostill♦
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Have you tried opening the file in a hex editor?
– Moab
Jan 8 at 13:58
No I haven't, I can give that a try!
– Ryan J
Jan 12 at 9:00
I tried doing that, but not sure what to make from the results.
– Ryan J
Jan 13 at 8:22
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Have you tried opening the file in a hex editor?
– Moab
Jan 8 at 13:58
No I haven't, I can give that a try!
– Ryan J
Jan 12 at 9:00
I tried doing that, but not sure what to make from the results.
– Ryan J
Jan 13 at 8:22
1
1
Have you tried opening the file in a hex editor?
– Moab
Jan 8 at 13:58
Have you tried opening the file in a hex editor?
– Moab
Jan 8 at 13:58
No I haven't, I can give that a try!
– Ryan J
Jan 12 at 9:00
No I haven't, I can give that a try!
– Ryan J
Jan 12 at 9:00
I tried doing that, but not sure what to make from the results.
– Ryan J
Jan 13 at 8:22
I tried doing that, but not sure what to make from the results.
– Ryan J
Jan 13 at 8:22
add a comment |
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Have you tried opening the file in a hex editor?
– Moab
Jan 8 at 13:58
No I haven't, I can give that a try!
– Ryan J
Jan 12 at 9:00
I tried doing that, but not sure what to make from the results.
– Ryan J
Jan 13 at 8:22