So my 2 TB seagate external had ~1 GB of data stored on it. I shared some of this data with a friend, and she returned my external hard drive, my computer wouldn't recognize it. At first, it was giving me the old "Drive E:\ is not accessible." Now it's asking me to format it. I did some usual googling, and found out repair-bde exists. Unfortunately, repair-bde is asking me to have a 2 TB output volume to recover this. I didn't buy the 2 TB external hard drive with another spare 2 TB lying around, I bought it because I was running out of disk space.
So here's the question: is there any way to repair the bitlocker encyrption on my external hard drive WITHOUT buying another 2 TB+ hard drive to store it? I have the password and recovery key generated from the initial encryption process, which went off without a hitch. I have been able to use the drive successfully in the past, but now it has decided to lose all my data.