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Problem with Bitlocked USB External HDD
I only installed Win 7 Ultimate yesterday and have been playing around investigating features. I decided to install Bitlock on an external USB drive.
I did this from within Help & Support. I've got a password and I've got a Bitlocker Drive Encryption Recovery Key. The encryption started and was immediately paused and now I can't go backwards or forwards. It wont let me do anything.
In Manage Bitlock almost everything leads to the message "The BitLocker metadata for the encrypted drive is not valid. You can attempt to repair the drive to restore access" but I can find no way of doing so.
In windows explorer I can see all the files on the drive but if I try to copy them to another drive I'm told the files cannot be found.
Obviously I need assistance.
This is my first post in this forum so if I'm in the wrong place please redirect me. Thanks.