File Share Encryption

I've recently inherited a handful of PGP Desktop Whole Disk Encryption encrypted laptops. I have a laptop from a terminated employee and have only what's listed as the PGP Key, but not a passphrase. The disk is listed as 100% encrypted.. I have found 2 CD's which appear to be PGP recovery disks for this PC, but when I load them, it just lists PGP recovery disk press any key to continue and then brings me back to the same passphrase prompt wshenever I hit a key.. I need to access some files from the system, what are my options? Is there a way to use the key without the passphrase to decrypt?? (version is 10.2.0)

Disks can be encrypted to either just a passphrase, or a public key.  If just the passphrase, you need it for access or decryption.  If to a public key, you must have both the the paired private key, and the private key's passphrase.  The other possible option is that if the laptops had PGP installed in a PGP Universal managed setting, that setting might have also created Whole Disk Recovery Tokens, that could be used to access and decrypt the disk. You would have to receive this WDRT from the PGP Universal admin.

Thanks Tom. So, I also have a flash drive in the file for this PC which has a single UUK.BIN file on it -could this possibly be the WDRT? If so, how do I use it with the recovery disk to gain access?

I'm not able to find any relationship of UUK.BIN with PGP.

Do you have further questions on this?

Unfortunately, it looks like I'm sunk without having the universal server in place unless I can somehow find the original passphrase. Thanks again for the info.