Not able to create crypted drive after formatting

[Earll Sheridan]

I formatted a drive I had previously encrypted. Now I cannot create a new veracrypt. I tried going into Disk Management and deleting the letter associated with the drive, then changing the letter. But no matter what I do, the new letter does not show on the Veracrypt screen when I attempt to create a new veracrypt. If I enter the drive manually, it appears that I can encrypt the drive, but upon completion, the crypt will not open. Any advice?

[Enigma2Illusion]

The problem of the "missing" drive letter is typically caused by entries left in the Windows registry.

If you are willing to use the DriveCleanup utility below to remove all currently non present USB Storage Devices, Disks, CDROMs, Floppies, Storage Volumes and WPD devices from the device tree. Furthermore it removes orphaned registry items related to these device types.

• Dismount all VeraCrypt volumes.
• Create a directory and unzip the DriveCleanup files into the directory.
• Start a command line prompt as Administrator.
• In the command window, change into the directory where you unzipped the files. If you are using 64-bit Windows OS, change into x64 subdirectory.

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Use the following command to see what the DriveCleanup utility will remove from the registry:
drivecleanup -T

To remove items from the registry:
drivecleanup

Reboot PC after running utility.

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/drivecleanup.zip

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html

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Next you state:

If I enter the drive manually, it appears that I can encrypt the drive, but upon completion, the crypt will not open. Any advice?

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Can you mount the VeraCrypt volume to an available drive letter showing within the VeraCrypt GUI?