"Wrong password or no veracrypt volume" pointing to drive fail?
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Hey there,
I haven't had this "Wrong password or no veracrypt volume" error for amost a year, then it started, and first time it occurred I kept retrying entering the passphrase, not trusting my eyes, until, at some point, VC reported back to me that the headers were damaged.
Dismount/header restore/fix. No problem.
I've read this is caused to an error within the drive that causes the surface, and thus the header, to change. According to Crystal Disk Info, my drives are fine, but I now have to restore my drive headers almost every week, sometimes more, sometimes less frequently. Could that point to a drive that's about to fail?
Thanks :-)
It's not clear from your post whether you are experiencing this problem with one drive or many, or with drive/partition hosted volumes, or file hosted ones.
However, while Crystal Disk Info will report on the overall staus of your drives, it seems quite clear that there's a problem with the area(s) on the disks where the header(s) are being rewritten, which will be the same place(s) every time!
You should back up your data, and reformat the drive/partition(s) in question. You should do a full, ie not 'Quick', format, which will identify and mark damaged sectors as unusable, and I recommend formatting within Windows 'Disk Management' and to monitor progress of the operation. You need to be sure the percentage formatting shown increases reasonably linearly ie proportionally with time. The process will always slow down a bit as damaged clusters are dealt with, but if at any point the process hangs for a long time, your drive/partiton(s) are sufficiently damaged as to render them unreliable, and should be replaced.
Thanks for taking the time!
I have 2 drives fully encrypted. One internal and one USB3 drive.
I don't know if VC stops after failing to decrypt the first one, so maybe it's only one drive after all.
So I'll proceed as proposed and try formatting. Thanks a lot!
OK, I just found out that Veracrypt gives me this message and goes to the password entry window although both disks are already decrypted... the disks seem to be fine, after all, could there be some other reason this pops up?