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Short answer no. Drive encryption is designed to prevent against exactly that type of situation. If there is a TPM chip installed the key is stored in the chip and usually you can boot to the computer without needing a recovery key (usb stick or passphrase).<br />
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Short answer no. Drive encryption is designed to prevent against exactly that type of situation. If there is a TPM chip installed the key is stored in the chip and usually you can boot to the computer without needing a recovery key (usb stick or passphrase).

Can you get into Windows?

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Have you tried to recover the computer object from Active Directory? There are tools you can use that will recover deleted objects, including its attributes. Here is a good article:<br />
<a href="http://www.petri.co.il/recovering-deleted-items-active-directory.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.petri.co.il/recovering-deleted-items-active-directory.htm</a><br />
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Have you tried to recover the computer object from Active Directory? There are tools you can use that will recover deleted objects, including its attributes. Here is a good article:
http://www.petri.co.il/recovering-deleted-items-active-directory.htm [http://www.petri.co.il/recovering-deleted-items-active-directory.htm]

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Because that worked and the other two didn't
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Because that worked and the other two didn't

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We have a laptop hard drive that was encrypted with Windows BitLocker. &nbsp;The user left the company and the machine was deleted out of Active Directory before thedrive was decrypted, so we have no Recovery Key to use and we don't have the user's PIN. &nbsp;Is there any way to decryp the drive?
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We have a laptop hard drive that was encrypted with Windows BitLocker.  The user left the company and the machine was deleted out of Active Directory before thedrive was decrypted, so we have no Recovery Key to use and we don't have the user's PIN.  Is there any way to decryp the drive?

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption

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