Question:
I have a HD protected by Bitlocker. Login, password and restore key are unknown and all I want to do is wipe the whole drive. When I try to boot from a windows installation cd I have no access to the drive since it asks for the restore key I don’t have.
Is there a way to format the whole drive to make it usable again?
Answer:
Press SHIFT-F10 or hit ‘repair’ in from the Windows installation to open up the command line, then execute the diskpart command and delete the partition, e.g.: list disk, select disk 0 or any other identifying the correct disk, list partition, select partition 1, or the encrypted one , in case there are multiple partitions, then delete partition override.
You can then resume the install procedure normally to repartition and format the drive.