I installed Veracrypt v1.26.29. Do I need to re-encrypt a portable...

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I installed Veracrypt v1.26.29. Do I need to re-encrypt a portable non-system drive?

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Vencent Valerian

Created: 2026-07-08

Updated: 2026-07-08

Vencent Valerian - 2026-07-08

Hi

I have an old portable SSD which was entirely encrypted using version 1.26.7. (When using Veracrypt 1.26.7 to format said drive, I chose NTFS because with the exFAT filesystem, almost 80 GB more disk space was used by the latter.)

Said drive contains data only.

I didn't create outer volumes and hidden volumes on it.

A few days ago I installed Veracrypt v1.26.29 on Microsoft Windows 11.

Do I need to re-encrypt the entire portable SSD?

Vencent

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Enigma2Illusion - 2026-07-08

Hi Vencent,

No need to re-encrypt per the release notes due to you are not using a hidden volume.

https://veracrypt.jp/en/Release%20Notes.html

Last edit: Enigma2Illusion 2026-07-08

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