Questions tagged [veracrypt]
For questions about the VeraCrypt open-source encryption utility. VeraCrypt can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or storage device.
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SSD with Windows 10 Pro is fully encrypted by VeraCrypt
My computer died. I took out a 240GB SSD with Windows 10 Pro. It is fully encrypted by VeraCrypt.
On another computer I tried to watch it through LiveCD and programs for working with hard drives. I ...
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Data Recovery from Veracrypt-Encrypted External Drive After Power Fluctuation
I find myself in a bit of a predicament and am reaching out for guidance on recovering data from a specific partition on a 1TB external hard drive, where all partitions are encrypted with Veracrypt. ...
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Keyboard pre-boot doesn't work properly
I want to encrypt my windows but I cannot because when typing the password at boot, it types multiple characters for each click. E.g. typing "Hello" will type actually "...
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Veracrypt - Error while Permanently Decrypting a non System Disk
I'm praying to the lord on high somebody may be able to help me.
I'm trying to permanently decrypt a non-system disk. The drive is an external 5TB connected via USB.
During the decryption process, I ...
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File System Unknown after decryption with Veracrypt Rescue Disk
My laptop had 2 veracrypt (1.25.9) disks (one as system, and the other with the same password) with windows installed in the first disk.
Suddenly it could´t boot anymore (May be it happened because, ...
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How to encrypt a disk with 2 Windows OSes and 3 partitions with Vera Crypt? [duplicate]
I have a disk with an MBR partition scheme and 3 partitions. On the first partition, there's a Windows 7 C: drive which I keep to play some retro games that won't run on newer Windows. The second ...
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Unlock a Veracrypt/Truecrypt partition which uses a keyfile with a passphrase from /etc/crypttab
I have a Veracrypt (/Truecrypt) volume, which I can successfully unlock manually by providing a key file and passphrase:
# cryptsetup --type tcrypt --key-file /.keyfile open /dev/nvme0n1p5 shared
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Fix BSOD after VeraCrypt Rescue Disk decryption and boot rebuild
So my laptop's motherboard died a little while ago, and once I replaced it, my full-disk-encrypted Windows installation gave me the 0xc000000e error code: "Required device missing"
So, I use ...
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Why doesn't zuluCrypt let me unmount my device from the terminal when the GUI works?
No matter what path I provide, it gives the same nonsensical error. The manual doesn't explain anything.
sudo zuluCrypt-cli -q /run/media/private/a/sde1
ERROR: Required option( device path ) is ...
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veracrypt misidentifies disk size
I tried creating a hidden partition on a 4TiB disk with veracrypt and it reports that only 416MiB are available. How can I create a hidden partition of (almost) the whole disk with the veracrypt cli?
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How to create a hidden VeraCrypt encrypted volume with zuluCrypt-cli
To create a normal VeraCrypt encrypted volume with zuluCrypt-cli:
$ sudo zuluCrypt-cli -c -d [volume_to_encrypt] -z vfat -t vcrypt -g "/dev/urandom.aes:twofish:serpent.xts-plain64.256.sha512"...
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How to hide two Windows installations from each other?
I have Windows 11 Pro and Windows 10 Pro installed side by side on the same computer. (Why? Because reasons.) Requirements are that 11 must be running Bitlocker, and SecureBoot must be enabled (due to ...
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Is it safe to switch RAM (two old for two new) when using VeraCrypt?
I use VeraCrypt to encrypt my C: drive. I purchased new RAM (2-kit) and plan to replace the old ones (2-kit).
I read this question about a problem when replacing RAM and using VeraCrypt, so I wanted ...
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External HD defrag stuck at 0% consolidated - due to discrepancy?
I have an Acer laptop running windows 10.
I have tried multiple times to defragment my external Hard Drive (Seagate) but every time it gets stuck 0% consolidated.
I have run CHKDSK and I am posting ...
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What software should I use to encrypt my storage drives with what configurations given encryption always fails?
I suspect that my use-case is NOT that unique. I have a PC with 1 NVMe SSD and two SATA SSDs. Each drive has Windows 10 installed on it. I need each drive to be encrypted. I have tried both Veracrypt ...
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Temporarily Turn-Off VeraCrypt
I have a laptop that is fully encrypted with VeraCrypt. I mostly use it at home and do not need encryption. Is it possible to turn off Veracrypt/not require the Veracrypt password on each reboot ...
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I created a drive with VeraCrypt. Can I open the drive by entering the password as command line argument, as can be done for Windows Bit Locker?
I open a drive encrypted with BitLocker in Powershell with the following code.
Unlock-BitLocker -MountPoint "D:" –RecoveryPassword XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX
I want to ...
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Full disk encryption: remotely enter password (Veracrypt or other solutions)
my computer's OS drive is fully encrypted with Veracrypt's system encryption: https://veracrypt.eu/en/System%20Encryption.html
Is there a way to remotely enter the password in the pre-boot ...
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dual boot debian and windows 11 with veracrypt
I have an hp laptop with windows 11 and whole disk encryption with AES using veracrypt, is there any way to have it dual boot with DragonOS (an sdr linux distro based on debian buster) without having ...
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Veracrypt partition dismounted on its own but won't let me mount to same dir
I had my hard disk mounted at /media/veracrypt7 when i wake up after a night of my fedora 37 being locked it's no longer mounted and after trying to mount to 7 again it won't let me, i have ...
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Veracrypt - Unable to decrypt disk at boot time after RAM change
Since the laptop is encrypted with Veracrypt (1.25.9), after a RAM change the laptop no longer recognizes veracrypt boot. ( how is this possible? lol )
That is, I enter the correct password and simply ...
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How to hide a VeraCrypt partition from Windows Explorer?
My question is kind of opposite of What GPT partition type GUID should I use for a VeraCrypt partition? and I don't like a solution like https://superuser.com/a/1438051/:
I have an USB stick ...
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When using VeraCrypt, which is preferable, the passphrase generated by Diceware or the key file?
I have important files stored in a VeraCrypt container. The files in the container must never be seen.
In the unlikely event that they are seized by the secret police, which is stronger, the ...
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How to recover Veracrypt encrypted Windows
I have a fully encrypted windows 10, I wanted to try Ubuntu and booted it from the USB stick then I just wanted to try it out or install it on the stick. Then I got to the point about LVM and Luks ...
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Veracrypt - Save password on my personal computer
Noob question guys. I bought an external drive so I can save my personal information like my id, my resume, my contracts my projects, etc....
I encrypted the drive using veracrypt and a password since ...
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How to get the "encryption method" string for a mounted drive in VeraCrypt from the command line?
I am trying to determine which encryption method each of my mounted VeraCrypt drives use, from PHP CLI, which means "from the command line".
I find no such feature in the VeraCrypt manual ...
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What to do when VeraCrypt "Repair Filesystem" literally takes forever and blocks you from working?
Update (I'm the poster who has lost access to the account): The command "WMIC diskdrive get Status,Model" claims that the "health" of the disk is "OK". But File Explorer ...
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Veracrypt not mounting: Structure needs cleaning
I am trying to mount one of my file containers: it contains an ext-4 volume and the file is also on an ext-4 volume (using Linux).
The Veracrypt GUI makes a popup: mount: /media/veracrypt5: mount(2) ...
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VeraCrypt dualboot 2x Windows 11 on the same disk
I have Laptop with an SSD where I have created 2 partitions and installed Windows 11 Home on both of them. One of the partitions is already encrypted with VeraCrypt and I can easily boot both systems ...
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Data recovery on partition encrypted with Veracrypt - Input/Output error - Possible disk failure
I am trying to recover some data from my backup drive which is encrypted with Veracrypt as I recently encountered input/output error messages when I attempted to copy some of the files from it. This ...
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VeraCrypt MountVolume:9170 Error
Yesterday I got this error when I wanted to open the disk that I protected with Veracrypt. I am absolutely sure that the password I use is correct because I use the same password everywhere. I would ...
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Incorrect password. Error 9170 VeraCrypt
can you help me please...
I used an external SSD drive to make a container
Every day for a year everything worked properly, I entered the password for the container and veracrypt decrypted the ...
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Data recovery from my SSD encrypted with Veracrypt is not working having the password
I have one SSD and one HDD. My SSD is encrypted with Veracrypt. Yesterday my SSD just stop to work and I can not do much from my SSD so I have installed Veracrypt on my HDD in order to get back all my ...
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Recover accidentally deleted VeraCrypt container
I created a VeraCrypt container and stored some files, but today I noticed that I mistakenly deleted that container from disk about 3 days ago. The size of the container was 30GB.
What are my options ...
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Veracrypt exFat inside Kubernetes pod
I have a working solution to run this veracrypt command inside a pod:
veracrypt --text --quick --non-interactive --create /media/vera --volume-type normal --size 200M --password 123456 --hash SHA-512 -...
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What happens if Veracrypt encrypted USB device is pulled out without dismounting?
Suppose you have a USB device (e.g. pen drive) that is entirely encrypted using Veracrypt (the "Encrypt a non-system partition/drive" option in Veracrypt). If this device is pulled out ...
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Dual booting two instances of Windows 10, how to encrypt one so the other cannot access?
I currently have two separate instances of Windows 10 Home installed on two different SSD's in my machine. I want to encrypt one instance (my main install) and the associated files which are on ...
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Veracrypt: rsync syncs all files every time
I try to backup my files with rsync on a HDD that I encrypted with Veracrypt.
But the problem is that it copies all files every time.
That is my command:
rsync -av --delete "$source/" "$...
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Veracrypt windows partition encryption (FULL C DRIVE ENCRYPTION) with batch file (PowerShell command line)
I have crawled the whole net and havent been able to find the answer. I am trying to encrypt encrypt the c drive via VeraCrypt using a batch script.
'C:\Program Files\veracrypt\VeraCrypt Format.exe' /...
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Veracrypt Hidden Partition Error
I accidentally mounted the normal volume (10Gb) and moved some files into there (~15Gb). The hidden partition is 50Gb, and when I try to mount now it is giving me an error:
"You need to format ...
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How can I repair my Windows 10 on a full-disk-encryption setup with VeraCrypt?
A recent optional Windows 10 update (2021-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 21H1 for x64-based systems (KB5005101)) destroyed my Windows installation on my fully encrypted disk (VeraCrypt).
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Veracrypt with /etc/udev/rules.d
Consider that I have /etc/udev/rules.d/91-checkveracrypt.rules:
ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1234", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1234", RUN+="/home/user/tryveracrypt.sh&...
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Veracrypt boot drive fails after Windows Update with “cannot find winload.efi”
After having run through a Windows 10 update again, the next time I tried to boot my machine, it immediately complained in a blue screen about being unable to find the "winload.efi" file.
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Can the extension of a veracrypt file be changed without damaging the file?
is this possible? so I can change the file back to its original extension and use it and when I am done using it, I change the extension to maybe a .mp4 or .pdf something like that ?
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Unable to restore the veracrypt volume after quick format
Encrypted 256 GB volume of a 1 TB HDD using VeraCrypt. (standard AES)
Password is known. No rescue disk, keys available.
Problem:
My friend formatted the encrypted drive using the quick format and ...
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How to recover a formatted hard drive by veracrypt?
I wanted to encrypt my drives with Veracrypt, but I didn't know that it will first format the hard drive, so I canceled the progress of encryption normally.
How can I recover my files?
I have used the ...
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VeraCrypt 1.24 Update 7: This distribution package is damaged
I downloaded the current (v1.24-U7) VeraCrypt installer directly from https://www.veracrypt.fr and whenever I try to install it on an "older" offline PC, I get the following error message:
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Veracrypt - permanently decrypt a working system drive from another computer and discard the bootloader?
I have an encrypted system disk pulled from a dead PC.
I do not have the rescue disk / ISO from when I encrypted the disk.
I do have the (working) password
The disk is fully functioning (i.e. not ...
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Pros and cons of different file system options when creating an encrypted volume using VeraCrypt? [closed]
When creating a volume using VeraCrypt, it first asks whether you'll be adding files in excess of 4TB (I clicked yes), and then it prompts for a file system:
The options are:
Mac OS Extended
exFAT
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VeraCrypt taking a very long time (~1 hour) to create volume?
To get to 50% on a 1.8TB volume, VeraCrypt has taken about 30 minutes. If it takes another 30 minutes to finish, that's 1h to create the volume. Is this normal? (if it in't should start over after ...
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