You can suspend BitLocker protection in the OS. If you do that it should let you pull the drive out/put a new drive in without issue. Control Panel - Bitlocker - Suspend.

After reports of widespread flaws in hardware-based SSD encryption, Microsoft has pushed out an update that defaults BitLocker protection to software-based AES encryption.

To disable BitLocker on your operating system, you have three options. You can use the Control Panel, Local Group Policy Editor, and Registry Editor.

The paper, entitled " HIPAA Security Compliance: 13 Critical BitLocker Settings to Help You on Your Path to Compliance," walks readers through the process of implementing full-disk data encryption ...