- - 2018-11-23

Hello
during an encryption of an external Seagate drive I have ancountered an "Cluster Error" Veracrypt asked me to either continue or zero out the cluster. I chose to zero out the cluster.

The ETA begun to grow from 8 hours it was previously to more than 900 days and then "Unavailible" I made a backup of the data before so I don't really have a problem I'm just curious how to proceed to save the data.

The encription is "in-place" with all default settings.

I know I can just format and start from scratch. that would be the simplest solution. (that would be a bit boring)
Can I just postpone the encryption and run chkdsk then continue encryption without affecting the encryption process?

I postponed the process once to reboot the PC thinking the old "have you tried turning it of and on again" would work and I got an option to encrypt, decrypt and a third option after reboot. I chose to encrypt to start the process again but I got the same error and same ETA growth. The decrypt option intrigued me. Can I just roll back the encryption run chkdisk and try again?

I only have one shot to have some fun with this.