Unlock Bit. Locker under Windows PE – 4sysops. In this article, you will learn how to create a Windows PE 3. Bit. Locker encrypted drives with the manage- bde command. Michael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 3. IT management and system administration. ![]() Latest posts by Michael Pietroforte (see all)A while back, I claimed that hard drives in business PCs should always be encrypted for various reasons. Even though many third- party encryption solutions are available, Bit. Locker would always be my first choice because it is perfectly integrated into Windows. Unfortunately, by default this is not the case for Windows PE. From Microsoft: When you want to have it all, choose Windows Vista Ultimate. It's the most complete edition of Windows Vista--with the power, security, and mobility. A disadvantage of hard drive encryption is that you can't easily access the system drive for troubleshooting if Windows is unable to boot up properly. Imagine a high- ranking manager coming to your office one morning, telling you that her laptop doesn't boot up and that she has important data on the encrypted system disk that she desperately needs later today. Ah, and by the way, her flight leaves in an hour. What will you do? Lost or forgot Windows 7, Vista, XP password? Windows password recovery methods to reset windows 7, Vista, XP password, administrator password and user. M3 free data recovery software download to recover data from RAW, formatted, inaccessible, corrupted, lost, deleted partition, recover deleted files even if emptied. ![]() ![]() One option is to boot up from your Windows PE rescue USB stick, unlock the Bit. Locker encrypted drive, retrieve the important data, and be a hero. Another option would be to look for another job, but we won't pursue this problem solution here. To unlock a Bit. Locker encrypted drive from the command prompt, you need the Windows command manage- bde. However, if you only have a common bootable Windows PE USB stick, your heroic deed will miserably fail with this error message: ERROR: An error occurred (code 0x. Class not registered. Not nice if your impatient manager is looking over your shoulder, claiming that she has booked a business class flight that will not wait for her. To avoid this embarrassing situation, you'd better have a Windows PE rescue stick at hand where all Windows PE WMI classes have been installed. To create a Windows PE installation that you can use to unlock Bit. Locker encrypted drives, you have to download the Windows AIK (WAIK) for Windows 7, install the WAIK, launch the Deployment Tools Command Prompt with admin privileges, and then follow this procedure: Create a Windows PE WIM image to unlock Bit. Locker ^. copype. Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x. Win. PE_FPs\Win. PE- WMI. Wim /mountdir: c: \winpe_x. ISO\sources\boot. Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x. Win. PE_FPs\Win. PE- WMI. Wim/mountdir: c: \winpe_x. ISO\sources\boot. If you prefer to boot Windows PE from a DVD or CD, you can create a bootable ISO file with this command. ISO c: \winpe_x. 86\winpe_x. ISOc: \winpe_x. 86\winpe_x. Under Windows 7, you can create the bootable Windows PE DVD through the context menu of the ISO file. I have already explained in detail how to create a bootable Windows PE USB stick before, so I won't repeat this procedure here. Unlock Bit. Locker with manage- bde ^Once you have booted up Windows PE, you can unlock the Bit. Locker encrypted system drive with this command. I assume here that you have stored all Bit. Locker recovery keys either in Active Directory or at another safe place. Of course, without a recovery key, you can't access a Bit. Locker encrypted drive from a second Windows installation. After all, that is the point of encrypting hard drives. Tip: Copy the recovery key file to your USB stick before you boot up. Then you can open the recovery key file with Notepad and paste the key on the command line. Manage- bde also has the recoverykey parameter, which is supposed to allow you to read the recovery key file from a drive. However, when I tried this option I only got this error message: ERROR: An error occurred while attempting to read the key from disk. I got the same error message under Windows 7, so I somehow think there is a bug involved because the recovery key worked fine. Please let me know if this option worked for you. Win the monthly 4sysops member prize for IT pros. Related Posts. Encrypt an Azure VM with Power. Shell. Create a certificate request with Power. Download Windows Server 2. R2 Retired Content from Official Microsoft Download Center. Supported Operating System. Windows 2. 00. 0, Windows Server 2. Windows XP. . Any application capable of displaying PDF files.
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