What does NTSTATUS 0xC0210020 (STATUS_FVE_OLD_METADATA_COPY) mean?

STATUS_FVE_OLD_METADATA_COPY

Meaning and context of STATUS_FVE_OLD_METADATA_COPY

BitLocker has detected that a backup metadata copy is stale. The important distinction is that this is a consistency warning between copies of BitLocker control information, not a statement that user files have been decrypted or that a supplied recovery credential is incorrect.

Preserve the current drive state and collect the time and context of the last encryption, decryption, resize, recovery, firmware, and power events. Re-running an arbitrary protector operation can make the investigation harder because it changes the metadata that needs comparison.

Before using recovery tooling, verify that the recovery material belongs to this exact volume. The repair workflow writes salvage output to a different destination, and its documentation warns that a key package can be necessary when BitLocker metadata is corrupt.

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Native status interpretation

STATUS_FVE_OLD_METADATA_COPY is 0xC0210020, an NTSTATUS error value. AllStat describes it as “The backup copy of the metadata is out of date.”