What does NTSTATUS 0x80210001 (STATUS_FVE_PARTIAL_METADATA) mean?

STATUS_FVE_PARTIAL_METADATA

Meaning and context of STATUS_FVE_PARTIAL_METADATA

This status concerns BitLocker volume metadata rather than an ordinary NTFS read or write. The metadata holds information needed to identify the volume and its protectors, so an incomplete update should be treated as a recovery and integrity event, not as a prompt to remove protectors or recreate the volume.

Record the drive letter, volume identity, conversion state, protection state, and the time of the failure before attempting another management operation. manage-bde -status exposes the conversion, lock, protection, and protector fields together; that is more useful here than a file-system check alone.

When metadata damage is suspected, preserve the original drive and recovery material. repair-bde writes recovered data to a separate target and may require the matching key package in addition to a recovery password or key. It is not a repair-in-place command.

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Native status interpretation

STATUS_FVE_PARTIAL_METADATA is 0x80210001, an NTSTATUS warning value. AllStat describes it as “Volume Metadata read or write is incomplete.”