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How to access 64bit win10 bitlocker drive from Vista 32bit PC (crash)
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Morning all!
was in the middle of implementing a new backup plan and my old desktop died. Was an i5 with win10 clean installed from win7 roots, bitlocker enabled.
I have been given an even older desktop with Vista still installed (suprisingly zippy, even with just 2gb ram) and have got it plugged in fine, and the system recognises it's presence, but not the win10 file system:
"File system unknown"
^ response from > control panel > computer management > disk management
Meantime, Did a TestDisk analyse and the drive gets green for healthy. But the Dos GUI does my head in.
What can I do (if anything between such different systems) to a) get the file system recognised and b)access bitlocker to type in my password (yes i have it lol), and be able to recover and back up my files? Preferably via an app that I don't need to be a rocket scientist to use.
The Vista system is very out of date as the desktop has been sitting there unused for a couple of years. I have not connected it to the internet and am copying analysis software over via usb. I could attempt an upgrade to win10 but on a 32bit system? Hmmm ...
Thanks in advance for any advice :)
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