{"id":24996,"date":"2022-08-02T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=24996"},"modified":"2022-08-02T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:38:56","slug":"linux-access-to-windows-bitlocker-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24996\/linux-access-to-windows-bitlocker-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux, access to Windows Bitlocker partition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access to Bitlocker Windows partition with Linux.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have Windows and Linux on the computer in parallel. The problem is that my data is mostly under Windows. Since I have encrypted my hard drives with Bitlocker, Linux cannot access them directly. Anyway, I was unsure if Linux can handle Bitlocker at all.<\/p>\n<p>But it works. In the file manager of KDE the Windows partition is shown as &#8220;Basic data partition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"158\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_1.png 413w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_1-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When trying to open it, a password is required. Looks good already, but what password is needed? I use TPM under Windows, i.e. I log in directly into Windows. The Windows account password cannot be used here, because this is technically not the password for Bitlocker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"262\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_2.png 436w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_2-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I tried the Bitlocker recovery key. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"818\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_3.png 818w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_3-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_3-768x386.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And lo and behold, it worked. The partition is decrypted and could be opened and thus I had access to the data.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_4.png 599w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bitlocker_linux_4-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to Bitlocker Windows partition with Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}