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repair-bde

Attempt to repair or decrypt a damaged BitLocker-encrypted volume. More information: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/repair-bde.

• Attempt to repair a specified volume:

repair-bde {{C:}}

• Attempt to repair a specified volume and output to another volume:

repair-bde {{C:}} {{D:}}

• Attempt to repair a specified volume using the provided recovery key file:

repair-bde {{C:}} -RecoveryKey {{path\to\file.bek}}

• Attempt to repair a specified volume using the provided numerical recovery password:

repair-bde {{C:}} -RecoveryPassword {{password}}

• Attempt to repair a specified volume using the provided password:

repair-bde {{C:}} -Password {{password}}

• Attempt to repair a specified volume using the provided key package:

repair-bde {{C:}} -KeyPackage {{path\to\directory}}

• Log all output to a specific file:

repair-bde {{C:}} -LogFile {{path\to\file}}

• Display help:

repair-bde /?