How to use BitLocker repair tool to recover encrypted drives and windows. Are you having trouble accessing critical data from a damaged drive? Don't panic. The BitLocker repair tool can help you recover your files. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to Ninja One's IT Video Hub and our YouTube channel for more tech content like this. An overview of the BitLocker repair tool. The BitLocker repair tool is a Windows command line utility that helps users recover data from damaged BitLocker encrypted drives on the block level using the repair BDE command. However, before you use the BitLocker repair tool, make sure you complete the following requirements. Check if your operating system is Windows seven enterprise or Ultimate Windows eight slash 8.1 Pro or Enterprise or Windows 10 Pro enterprise or education. Sign in as an administrator. Prepare a password recovery key or startup key for the tool. Run a diagnostic scan on the damaged drive to check for bad sectors. Create a copy of critical system files like your recovery key. Have an empty output volume with equal or more storage than your encrypted drive. How to use the BitLocker repair tool? Let's walk you through using the BitLocker repair tool. Open an elevated command prompt search CMD in the start menu. Right click and select. Run as administrator. Locate the encrypted drive and confirm its volume label. Open the file explorer and click this PC to see your systems drives. The encrypted drive should have the label BitLocker drive with a lock symbol on the icon. Take note of the drive letter and the letter for the output drive. Remember, any data on the output drive will be overwritten. Run the BitLocker repair tool command. You can use three commands to run the BitLocker repair tool depending on your available recovery information using a password, using a recovery key using a startup key. Next, you must enter the recovery key or password for the damaged drive. If the unlock this volume window asks for a password, enter the drive's BitLocker password. However, if it asks for a recovery key, navigate to where you stored your backup files and look for the key corresponding to the key id. Afterward, run this command. Choose a new drive for the decrypted files. Once the tool runs, it will decrypt data and store it in the output drive. Make sure this drive has enough free space and no important files as they will be erased. Verify recovery and check drive integrity. Finally, you must run this command on the output drive to check and repair any errors, and that's how you can recover critical data from a damaged, encrypted drive using the BitLocker repair tool. For more information, check out our official blog post on how to use BitLocker repair tool linked in the description below.