Windows 10: Bitlocker Stuck at 15% in win 10 Pro. I am Unable to pause, turnoff or use my computer.

Hi All


In the Thread:


https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files-winpc/bitlocker-stuck-at-84-in-win-10-pro-i-am-unable-to/e3a1234e-bb3d-41d2-9428-06b5657441bb?page=2


I didn't the solution.


I had the same issue because of my drive had bad sector.


Solution:


1. start windows in recovery mode

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/repair-windows-10

2. in the command prompt write: chkdsk x: /r /f

x=your drive letter

3. start windows safe mode

https://youtu.be/2N82cC3tlf8

4. Check Encryption progress in the command prom

manage-bde -status


you should start to see progress.

:)

 

Bitlocker Stuck at 84% in win 10 Pro. I am Unable to pause, turnoff or use my computer.

Andria, thank you very much for your quick response. This is where I am...

1. Even though the encryption is not finished, I have the option to unlock the partition after I forcefully shutdown and turn on the PC by using the power button. I have a working password and recovery ID. As soon as I enter the password to unlock the partition,
it gets unlocked and encryption continues but it would not pass 84.1% and the system becomes dead slow again.

2. I used password when I encrypt this partition. I have a working password and recovery file.

3. I thought bitlocker faced some bad sectors with error even though it did not generate any message about bad sectors. I decided to run chkdsk from command prompt. I restarted the PC with my win7 pro recovery cd and tried to run chkdsk from command prompt
"chkdsk D: /r" .It gave me some error message saying window can't perform chkdsk on raw partition or some thing like that.

Method 1: does not apply to me because I didn't loose my password or recovery ID. I have both and they are working.

Method 2: also doesn't address my issue since I can easily unlock my partition and access all my files. The PC will become terribly slow but the files are still accessible.

I need to stop bitlocker from trying to continue encryption so that either.....

1. I could turn off bitlocker on that partition so that all my files are decrypted and never touch bitlocker again or

2. I could pause bitlocker for a while and the partition stays unlocked and the PC becomes usable enough for me to copy all files on D: partition to external drive and then I could delete the partition or reformat it.

As I have said in the beginning, I have tried to pause and turnoff bitlocker from elevated command prompt before by using ......

1.manage-bde -pause D:

2.manage-bde -off D:

to no avail. The command get executed but nothing changes. I know bitlocker is not paused because the PC will remain unusable. I also know bitlocker is not turned-off because I still can see the encryption process @84.1%.

Please let me know if you need further information.

D.

 

Bitlocker Stuck at 84% in win 10 Pro. I am Unable to pause, turnoff or use my computer.

Hi, It has been a week since I lost access to my data partition. I have searched a lot to get solution but to no avail. I hope someone will have some idea how to fix this.

I upgraded to win 10 pro and decided to use bitlocker on my data partition (D. Bitlocker reached 84.1% in few hours and then it stop progressing. I waited for two days before I started worrying. At this point the computer is uselessly slow to the point
it will take 5-10 minute for me to open anything. I found out that the cpu and memory is not used a lot but the hard disk is at 100% usage.

I opened command com with elevated privilege and tried to pause bitlocker but it did not work. I also tried to turn off bitlocker on that partition but that did not work either. These are some of the commands that I used in admi mode

1.manage-bde -pause D:

2.manage-bde -off D:

The next thing that I tried is I shutdown the computer using the power off button(I took the risk). When window start again, that partition was locked but now at-least I can use my pc. I can see the partition but I can not access it but if I unlock it using
the password, bitlocker continue encrypting starting where it left an my pc becomes unusable again. Every thing becomes like toooo slow.

I have not tried bitlocker recovery app yet because I don't think It is relevant to my case. If anybody thinks that is the way to go, please let me know.

I am not willing to lose my data yet, I thought about recovering my data but if I try to access the data by unlocking it, the pc will be too slow to recover the data. I need to stop bitlocker ! Please help.

Thanks

 

Bitlocker Stuck at 84% in win 10 Pro. I am Unable to pause, turnoff or use my computer.

Hi Dave,

I'm having the same, or nearly the same problem. I enabled BitLocker in Windows 10 Pro, and it began to encrypt the C: volume, where I have Windows and my user data files. For over a week, BitLocker says that it is encrypting the drive, but it is stuck
at 84%. I can still use the machine, but the disk is constantly churning, and at times the performance is excruciatingly poor. I didn't try unencrypting the disk. I suppose that I could do that, but I really just want BitLocker to finish encrypting and
then run smoothly.

Any hints for me?

Thanks,

Bruce Maggs