Power failure during external disc encryption with BitLocker

So I had the power go off while I was running bitlocker (to go?) on my external hdd.
I was not able to pause it before this happened.
I was also running BL on an internal drive.

Both were interrupted.
I was able to resume and finish the internal drive.
I was Not able to resume the external.

The BL application just stop responding when I try to resume/unlock the disk.
It also seems I can't restart the machine normally when BL is trying to unlock the drive.

I read somewhere on the ms support site that even with power failure, resuming is possible.
This might have only applied to an internal drive.
I do recall seeing the pause button for the external, with a note that I needed to pause to stop in case of data corruption or something like that.

Is there a way to recover my external?

Thoughts:
Do I need to let the program "not respond" for the same time or maybe longer than the time it spent encrypting it?
Could I remove the drive and make it an internal?

I took the external out of the enclosure and connected it via usb through a different device. Windows does not see the drive nor does disk management.

My next step is to make it an internal drive - will post here with results.

After installing the drive as an internal, a few things changed.

Now, when I go to unlock the drive, BitLocker doesn't stop responding. Instead, after about a minute or so, I get the message: "The semaphore timeout period has expired"

I can click the "I forgot my password" lick and enter in the Recovery Key, but it says it is not correct and to try again.

Also, Disk Management is now able to see the drive.
It looks like I could format it and atleast be able to use it again...


I found an article that I think I need to try next, but atm I do not have a drive of equal or larger size.
Scenario 16: Using the BitLocker Repair Tool to Recover a Drive


Edit: Omg if you don't let this site through noscript, your posts are walls of txt.

This all stemmed from my desire to give Origin the finger so I could install and play BattleField3.

An alternative method to using a virtual machine, external hdds, or reformatting.

I simply locked out all the data areas I don't think EA needs to snoop.

I made it so I can just right-click relock the drive instead of restarting my computer each time.