Windows 10: Drive decryption stuck at 5% for two days on windows 11 home.

I recently purchased a second m.2 drive for my Lenovo Loq 16 with AMD, added it just fine and Windows recognized the drive. My problems started when I tried to combine both the original drive and second into a single storage pool or partition, Windows would not let me expand the volume of the main drive as it was encrypted. After alot of searching online I removed encryption from my drive using START>SETTINGS>PRIVACY AND SECURITY>DEVICE ENCRYPTION. This worked initially and the decryption process made rapid progress, until it reached approximately five percent and has sat there ever s

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Bitlocker Stuck Decrypting

@rinconmike For future reference, instead of using the TASK MANAGER to restart, you can simply hold CTRL + SHIFT and right click on blank space on the Task bar, to bring up 'Exit Explorer'. Another option is to use software.

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BitLocker Drive Decryption stuck For days...

Hi Joe. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, specializing in Installation, Performance, Troubleshooting and Activation, here to help you.

This is another reason I don't recommend any MS built-in encryption, because of the number of lost files I've seen due to keys not found or working, failed decryption, etc. etc.

For over ten years I've used simple folder passwording by 7Zip daily without any problem, nor have I ever seen a problem here in forums where I deal with Bitlocker crises every day.

Here is how others have dealt with stuck Bitlocker decryption:

https://windowsreport.com/bitlocker-decryption-... (Avoid ad links which intrude into editorial copy, especially avoid Restoro and Reimage ads)

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-...

https://superuser.com/questions/1121447/full-dr...

https://superuser.com/questions/782128/bitlocke...

https://superuser.com/questions/1559509/bitlock...

https://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?p=2...

https://www.m3datarecovery.com/bitlocker-drive-...

If nothing else works you'll need to run Data Recovery, then wipe the drive with Clean Command to reinstall Windows or reformat for data:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase...

Feel free to ask back any questions. Please report back results for all steps given so I know what else to suggest if necessary.

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BitLocker Drive Decryption stuck For days...

Hello Joe Smith_2711,

Welcome to Microsoft Office Community Forum. Thank you for sharing your concern with us today and we hope that all is well.

We understand that you are having issue with BitLocker Drive Decryption stuck for a few days. Let’s us check on this together and sort this out. Rest assured, we will do anything in our capability to assist you with your concern.

Let me provide you the troubleshooting step that could fix the issue.

Use the Manage-bde –on <drive> command to recover the driver.

Please se Instructions through this link.

We look forward to your response. If you have other clarifications about this matter, you can get back to us by replying to this post.



Sincerely,

Carlo O.

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