Can't Encrypt External Drive

Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid

Brought to you by: idrassi

Can't Encrypt External Drive

Forum: Technical Topics

Creator: Ezra Villan

Created: 2021-08-11

Updated: 2021-08-11

Ezra Villan - 2021-08-11

This only occurs when trying to format a large external SATA hard drives (12TB) and not with smaller USB devices (tested up to 128GB). After completion of creating a new volume, Veracrypt will fail to format the volume. I'll mount it and try to format it using Windows but I just get a vague message every time that it failed to format the volume. I can't enter the volume or move files into it.

Third party software doesn't detect the mounted container for some reason. I've also tried to do the encryption with other format types (exFAT and FAT) without any luck.

I scanned the disk using chkdsk which didn't find anything wrong with the drive.

I've also tried to encrypt in place without any luck.
Any suggestions?

Last edit: Ezra Villan 2021-08-18

1 - Copy.PNG

2 - Copy.PNG

4 - Copy.PNG

5 - Copy.PNG
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Log in to post a comment.