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I have a damaged surface pro 3 with a destroyed touch screen. Totally shattered giving access to all internals. I also have another surface pro 3 that is fully operational. I am trying to move all the information from the broken machine to the working machine making it essentially the old one. I have gained access to the drive from the broken machine using a USB adapter. But I have not been able to get the machine to boot from the USB because of the bit-locker turned on for the old drive. Unfortunately, the latest backup from the damaged machine does not include some programs installed after the backup. What is the best way to make the new machine a clone of the old machine? I am hoping I can some how clone the USB drive to the internal drive but have no idea how to proceed at this point. Thanks.
Since BitLocker on a drive means the drive is encrypted, the only way to decrypt it is using a BitLocker recovery key which can be obtained via a Microsoft account that was signed into the same device that had bitlocker enabled. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help…
