Windows 10: Bitlocker Decryption paused and does not resume.

i locked one of partition in my laptop with bitlocker. every thing was working fine until i decided to unlock/decrypt it again.

i did this by following simple steps, and when it started decrypting i unknowingly restarted my laptop, now it is paused and there is no way i can resume it again.

i can access the partition without any error but the little decrypting window is very annoying, can you please tell me how i resume it or get rid of it?


some pictures are attached for clarification.




Thanks in Advance!

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BitLocker Decryption Paused..

Hi,

Unfortunately, some days before, I started BitLocker encryption for my 1 TB external hard disc. My bad mistake. The encryption was not finished successfully. After that, whenever the disc is inserted, it is saying that there is error in encryption and the
disc is not ready yet. I have also checked the BitLocker Drive Encryption option in control panel, but there is no option for "suspend protection/turn off BitLocker". Even I cannot open any folder within that drive. I cannot resume/cancel the encryption/decryption
also.

There are lots of important data inside that drive and I have to recover those to my computer. All I need is to decrypt that drive and put back it in its earlier stage without any encryption. Please help.

 

BitLocker Decryption Paused..

Hi Hans,

Thanks for your immediate response.

I have followed the steps for my device (D in Windows PowerShell as mentioned by you but I got the following result mentioning "the device is not ready". Please help with any alternate solution.

Thanks

C:\WINDOWS\system32> manage-bde -status

BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.16299

Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Disk volumes that can be protected with

BitLocker Drive Encryption:

Volume C: [Windows]

[OS Volume]

Size: 464.15 GB

BitLocker Version: 2.0

Conversion Status: Used Space Only Encrypted

Percentage Encrypted: 100.0%

Encryption Method: XTS-AES 128

Protection Status: Protection On

Lock Status: Unlocked

Identification Field: Unknown

Key Protectors:

Numerical Password

TPM

Volume D: [comicider]

[Data Volume]

Size: 931.51 GB

BitLocker Version: 2.0

Conversion Status: Decryption Paused

Percentage Encrypted: 0.1%

Encryption Method: AES 128 with Diffuser

Protection Status: Protection Off

Lock Status: Unlocked

Identification Field: Unknown

Automatic Unlock: Disabled

Key Protectors:

Numerical Password

Password

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Disable-BitLocker -MountPoint "D:"

Disable-BitLocker : The device is not ready. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070015)

At line:1 char:1

+ Disable-BitLocker -MountPoint "D:"

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ) [Write-Error], FileNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.FileNotFoundException,Disable-BitLocker

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> manage-bde -off D:

BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.16299

Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

ERROR: An error occurred (code 0x80070015):

The device is not ready.

 

Windows 7 BitLocker

One of the steps in upgrading from Win7 to Win10 says to turn off BitLocker. I selected to turn off and then decrypt drive which it says to do, that was running for hours, I walked away and now it says decryption paused but nothing about
how to get it started again or restart it. There is nothing to show status of the decryption but the Win10 installer still says it isn't finished and can't move forward with installation. How do I resume the decryption and know when it is finished?