

To open the device with a key file, use: sudo cryptsetup open -type=bitlk -key-file=/etc/cryptsetup-keys.d/.key To open a BitLocker device with a password, use: sudo cryptsetup open -type=bitlk Good luck!ĬryptSetup has added experimental support for BitLocker as of version 2.3.0 (February 2020), which is available in Ubuntu's repos for 20.10 Groovy onwards, although support will likely improve in later versions. You should now see your files in a mounted drive of the file manager.īackups are fairly slow, but it might save some trouble if you do end up reinstalling windows.mount -o loop dislocker-file /media/mount.change dir to /media/windows (use sudo -i if you can't access it).identify the partition which is bitlocked.change directory to the dislocker/src folder.

#Ubuntu 16.04 bitlocker reader gui install

I'm fairly unexperienced with Unix, so it cost a few hours to figure it out. Thanks to Aorimn, his solution worked for me.
