repair a BitLocker-protected drive

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To repair a BitLocker-protected drive by using Repair-bde

  1. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator.
    1. To do this, click Start, type cmd in the Search programs and files box, right-click cmd.exe, and then click Run as administrator.
    2. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Yes.
  2. At the command prompt, type one of the following commands, depending on which recovery information you want to use:
    1. To repair using a recovery password:

      repair-bde C: Z: -rp 062612-026103-175593-225830-027357-086526-362263-513414
    2. To repair using a recovery key:

      repair-bde C: Z: -rk F:\RecoveryKey.bek
    3. To repair using a recovery package and the corresponding recovery password:

      repair-bde C: Z: -kp F:\ExportedKeyPackage -rp 062612-026103-175593-225830-027357-086526-362263-513414
    4. To repair using a recovery package and the corresponding recovery key:

      repair-bde C: Z: -kp F:\ExportedKeyPackage -rk F:\RecoveryKey.bek
:- C: - Repair Drive , Z: Drive to store recovery information and must have enough capacity.

Paused BitLocker Fix
You may want to provide people the tools to resume a bitlocker process after it has been paused. I had to find the answer on the internet and then do some modifying to make it work.

This can be done by going to Start and opening the CMD. Then type: cscript %systemroot%\system32\manage-bde.wsf -resume DriveLetter:

There are also a variety of other things that can be checked by viewing the parameter list:
cscript %systemroot%\system32\manage-bde.wsf -?

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