{"id":27372,"date":"2025-06-26T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.co.in\/blog\/?p=27372"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:18:06","slug":"data-recovery-bitlocker-encrypted-nvme-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.co.in\/blog\/data-recovery-bitlocker-encrypted-nvme-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"SSD Data Recovery: BitLocker-Encrypted ASUS NVMe Restored by Stellar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early on a Monday, a project manager at a midsize insurance services firm in Kolkata tried to start her two-year-old ASUS Vivobook but saw only a spinning circle.<\/p>\n

An urgent audit was due in three days, and data on 45,000 policyholders\u2014spreadsheets, reports, and scanned claim images\u2014was stored on the laptop\u2019s secondary D: partition.<\/p>\n

She needed her data urgently, so she visited a local data recovery vendor and explained her problem.<\/p>\n

The technician at the shop ran a quick S.M.A.R.T. test, declared the solid-state drive (SSD) \u201cseverely corrupted,\u201d and advised formatting. That would have erased every file.<\/p>\n

The drive was further protected by BitLocker.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Without the 48-digit recovery key, even a working computer could not open the partitions. Conventional \u201cplug-it-into-another-machine\u201d methods would fail.<\/p>\n

How the Client Found Us<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The client searched for \u201cSSD data recovery Kolkata<\/strong><\/a>\u201d and found out about Stellar Data Recovery\u2019s branch office in Kolkata. Google reviews and customer testimonials gave her confidence, and she reached out to us. Our data recovery expert took the details and explained the process and the chances of successful recovery to her over the phone, after which she requested an immediate pick-up.<\/p>\n

By the following morning, the SSD was securely sitting on a test bench in our lab.<\/p>\n

System Specifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Item<\/strong><\/th>Details<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Laptop<\/td>ASUS Vivobook 15 (Intel Core i5-1135G7, 8 GB RAM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Storage<\/td>512 GB SanDisk SN530 NVMe SSD \u2013 M.2 2280<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
File System<\/td>Windows 11 Pro, NTFS, two partitions (C: 370 GB, D: 120 GB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Protection<\/td>BitLocker full-disk encryption on both partitions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Solution and Approach<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Step 1: Cloning<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SSD\u2019s health rating was below 40%. Bad memory cells slowed every read to under 10 MB\/s. Our senior SSD data recovery technician advised that further use risked total failure. So, our engineers placed the drive in a hardware-level imaging station that reads unstable media one block at a time. Then they cloned it onto a healthy SSD.<\/p>\n

Step 2: Decryption<\/strong><\/p>\n