Michael Saekel - 2020-04-09
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Adrian
What I did was encrypt 115GB of 128gb drive. Then I could not read my writing
to enter my password so I could not log into D:/backup.    Rather than
waiting for a reply I reformatted USB drive again nstp and was going
to start over again tonight.

Your last sentence got to me.    Many years ago I had a lot of files and
folders on my windows 7 Pavilion G6.  I kind of remember downloading
truecrypt and passworded so had to use before I got into my
computer.  I used that password for many years until a little more than
I week ago when my g6 died.  I purchased this HP DY about a week ago.  I
did have backups from my USB's to get my files and folders onto this Windows
10.  With g6 password I am pretty certain I did not encrypt entire
windows 7 hard drive when I installed it.

"rather than encrypting the whole thing, post back"   Makes more sense
to me.
It would be like a door lock on a car or house.  I just want to stop
people from getting in to see or find files.  Why did I have to encrypt
for 3 hours?
If you tell me it is better to do 3 hours I will try again with a password I copy and paste to a place I won't forget or messup. doing it faster would be nice.  Though what would happen if Windows 10 laptop died and I had all my files on locked USB's I could not get into?
Thanks
J
On 4/9/20, 9:47 AM Adrian Kentleton <adriankit@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
You have not stated clearly what you did, so I'll make some assumptions.

I assume you mounted a 128GB flash drive to D:, and encrypted the whole drive. What you now need to do is launch Windows Disk Management (run > diskmgmt.msc) and remove drive letter D: from that flash drive (which will show as RAW).

You then 'Select Device' in the VC GUI, choose the 'Partition1' entry for your flash drive, and mount it to D: (since that is no longer associated with the encrypted drive, so can be allocated to it when decrypted/mounted).

If my assumptions are incorrect, ie you created a large encrypted file on the flash drive, rather than encrypting the whole thing, post back.


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