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STATUS_FVE_LOCKED_VOLUME
Meaning and context of STATUS_FVE_LOCKED_VOLUME
BitLocker recognizes this as an encrypted volume, but Windows does not currently hold a usable volume master key for normal file-system access. It is therefore different from a damaged file system and also different from a recovery credential that was already tried and rejected.
Check the exact target volume and its recovery-key identifier before supplying a recovery password or recovery key. manage-bde -status and Get-BitLockerVolume distinguish a locked protected volume from one that is merely not encrypted. Do not format, initialize, or remove protectors to make the status disappear; none of those actions unlock existing encrypted data.
When an expected TPM or automatic-unlock protector no longer releases the key, use the configured recovery path and then investigate the changed boot, firmware, or management state. STATUS_FVE_FAILED_AUTHENTICATION is the nearby code for a recovery authentication attempt that failed; this code does not itself say that a supplied credential was invalid.
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Native status interpretation
STATUS_FVE_LOCKED_VOLUME is 0xC0210000, an NTSTATUS error value. AllStat describes it as “This volume is locked by BitLocker Drive Encryption.”
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