Bitlocker's Destroyed My Hard Drive

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Heritage Adedamola

I decided to encrypt my external hard drive, started it, but then it got stuck at 84.3% for three days now. I tried several times to pause and even turn off the encryption, but when I do, the Bitlocker Manager hangs. My Hard Disk was still accessible so I browsed through it and deleted some strange files I saw in it because I was almost out of space; I deleted a file "pagesys" and another "swapsys" and I don't know if they are related to Bitlocker. Now I can no longer access it, and even when I manage to, the system lags, windows explorer shows "not responding" and restarts several times. Please what can I do? I have many important files on the disk and that was why I wanted to keep it locked. Please I need help.

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