Bitlocker Encryption frozen and drive un-accessable

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Whilst upgrading from a Dell desktop PC to a new Dell desktop PC. The old PC running Windows 11 had 2 drives: a SSD boot drive and a mechanical HDD full of data I wanted to transfer. I was copying data from the HDD to the new PC across a network using Remote Desktop when it became slow so I removed the old pc's data HDD and installed it into the new PC to copy the files more quickly. The drive appeared Ok and I successfully copied a large amount of data across to the new PC this way and only had about 10% left to manually copy when I shut the PC down at bedtime. The next morning on starting PC

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