Anyone know if its possible to cancel the process of "encryption" for Bitlocker when he started?

I have enabled Bitlocker to my USB on Windows 7 and just after the encryption process initial started I realized I forgot to format the USB stick to NTFS (it is formatted in FAT32). So, I suspended the encryption and removed the USB to the computer. The window of "encryption" Bitlocker disappeared and thought, cool, it stopped. No, it's never easy I guess. I plug in the USB flash drive in and the 'encryption' POPs back once again, with only one button "pause." No button 'Cancel' for some reason any. I guess that Microsoft don't stir the meninges it long enough to think that anyone would ever want to cancel the encryption process, once it has started. The only good news in this story, it's that my USB was only 4 GB in size so I waited. If I had bought a much larger capacity USB key I would be very angry right now.

So my question, is it possible to cancel the encryption Bitlocker process once it has started? And if not, Microsoft, why not? Please put this on your to-do-list. Thank you. System configuration: Winndows 7 RTM, Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L motherboard, Intel Pentium Dual - Core E6300 Wolfdale 2.8 GHz, 4 GB of memory PC-1066 DDR2 Patriot Viper, 500 GB Western Digital hard drive, GeForce 8800GT Videocard

Hi BradleyA,

You will not be able to cancel the encryption, as is a built-in feature.

You can suspend or resume the encryption.

1 open the Bit locker Drive Encryption by clicking the Start button, click Control Panel, clicking Security, and then click Bit locker Drive Encryption.

2. do one of the following:

·         To temporarily suspend Bit Locker, click suspend Protection, and then click Yes.

·         To Disable Bit Locker and decrypt the drive, click Disable Bit Locker, and then click drive to decrypt.

For more information, please click on the following link:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/help-protect-your-files-using-BitLocker-Drive-encryption

With regard to:

Swati K - Microsoft support technician

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