Windows 10: Bitlocker restart taking hours

I put in the recovery key for bitlocker and said it would need to restart or go to advanced settings. For 2 hours it’s been on the HP loading screen attempting to restart. Has anyone had success with this?

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Need to turn off Bitlocker to install Windows 10

Hi,

We suggest doing the following steps again to resolve the issue. To complete the procedure, make sure that you have the following information:

• You must be able to provide administrative credentials.
• The drive must be BitLocker-protected.

To suspend BitLocker Drive Encryption on an operating system drive, please follow the steps below:

• Click Start, click Control Panel, click
  System and Security, and then click BitLocker Drive Encryption.
• Click Suspend Protection for the operating system drive.
• A message is displayed, informing you that your data will not be protected while BitLocker is suspended and asking if you want to suspend BitLocker Drive Encryption.
  
• Click Yes to continue and suspend BitLocker on the drive.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Bitlocker very slow. Taking days as appose to hours

So have a new 4TB drive and i thought it would be prudent to encrypt it using bitlocker, as i have done in the past with all my external drives.

I started bitlocker within the O/S and well after two hrs it had completed something like 0.2% so did a little searching around, and someone had mentioned its quicker to do this in recovery mode using the command manage-bde -resume driveletter: Don't forget to pause the encryption before restarting into recovery mode, and also see my tip below about making a note of the recovery key As you're going to need it.

Tip: Once in recovery mode, an easy way to find what drive letter is the actual ext drive you're trying to encrypt is type manage-bde -status and it'll list all your drives, and it'll tell you which one has the bitlocker encryption that should of already been started in the O/S.

Left it overnight, for 8hrs to be precise, and its done like 7% (again you can check the percentage of completion by using the command manage-bde -status

So at this rate, its going to take ages to complete this. I've never done a 4TB before, but i have done a 2TB before, and well it most definitely didn't take this long. Perhaps overnight or maybe 24hrs. This was using Windows 7, as appose to Win10.

I chose to encrypt the entire drive and did not take the newer encryption offered by Win10.

Also for whatever reason, my screen goes into stand-by while being left in recovery mode for sometime, and no-matter what i can't bring it out of it... so what i end up doing is typing blindly, manage-bde -pause driveletter: i see the drive light stops blinking, so i know its paused the encryption, then restart the computer. HOWEVER, because the ext drive is bitlocker protected, you'll have to unlock it, when you go back into recovery mode, using the recovery key that was generated when you first launched the bitlocker encryption within the O/S.... so top tip, take a photo or write that recovery key down as you'll need it.

At this rate, it seems like i'd be better off building a Win7 machine just to run bitlocker...

What's the deal with bitlocker taking infinitely longer to encrypt in Win10 as appose to Win7 ?

Who in their right mind over at MS thought ok we'll offer this, but it'll take a week or two to actually make any use of it, for what is nowadays a standard size of any external / internal drive.