What does NTSTATUS 0xC0210002 (STATUS_FVE_BAD_INFORMATION) mean?

STATUS_FVE_BAD_INFORMATION

Meaning and context of STATUS_FVE_BAD_INFORMATION

The failure concerns BitLocker’s per-volume control information, not the syntax of a management request. It therefore differs from STATUS_FVE_BAD_DATA, which points to malformed data supplied to the control engine by a caller.

Preserve the volume, its recovery information, and the exact status before attempting any intrusive operation. Repeatedly changing protectors, repartitioning, or initializing the disk does not reconstruct valid encrypted-volume control state and can remove evidence needed for a supported recovery process.

Collect the BitLocker status, the event-log context, the volume identity, and the operation that produced the error. Then decide whether the issue is limited to management metadata or whether a recovery procedure is required; a wrong recovery password is diagnosed separately as an authentication failure.

Microsoft NTSTATUS reference | BitLocker recovery overview | BitLocker operations guide

Native status interpretation

STATUS_FVE_BAD_INFORMATION is 0xC0210002, an NTSTATUS error value. AllStat describes it as “The control block for the encrypted volume is not valid.”