I'm trying to use Paladin 9 to get into a bitlockered drive, but having no luck. I've got the recovery key (it's my laptop) but when I select the volume in Paladin Toolbox and press 'mount-R', it gives me the dialogue box to enter a password or key, then nothing at all happens when I do so. There's no difference when I give it a garbage file so I don't think it's even trying.
Anyone come across this before?
I don't know nothing about Paladin 9 and it's GUI, but I can tell you exactly what commands you would have to run to unlock and mount that Bitlocker encrypted drive on a Debian-based system. Run them as root.Â
1. Unlock the drive
cryptsetup bitlkOpen </path/to/encrypted/partition> --key-file=</path/to/blkreckey.txt> <mapping_name_of_your_choice>
2. Mount the drive
mount /dev/mapper/<mapping_name_of_your_choice> /path/to/your/mountpoint
or maybe if you want to mount as read-only, then: mount -o ro <rest of the command>
Thanks, I don't know why I didn't think of finding the underlying software for that! I tried
cryptsetup bitlkOpen /dev/nvme0n1p3 /media/lappydrive --key-file=/media/128Kingston/BitLockerRecoveryKeyxxxxxxx-8xxx1-4xxx0x5-9xx-1FE72xxxxxxx.TXT
(it wanted the mount path earlier), and it says 'No key available with this passphrase.' It's definitely the right key for the drive, so maybe it's protection in the BIOS or the data is damaged in some way.
First guess is that you need to reformat the key file and remove all the jibberish, so that it contains only the recovery key as a single string.