A Windows 10 laptop's hard drive was encrypted with Bitlocker and has been physically removed from the laptop and is now being used as an external device. The Bitlocker recovery key is used to access this hard drive as an external device and there are no issues there.
On this device there are old system files in the "Windows" folder and "Program Files" folder. I would like to delete some of these files to free up space. My question is: if I delete certain files, will I mess up the Bitlocker encryption to the extent that I won't be able to unlock the hard drive with the recovery key? Are there essential files for the Bitlocker encryption sitting in either the "Windows" folder or the "Program Files" folder? If so, which ones are they, so I can keep those and delete the rest?
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