Wrong password or no veracrypt volume
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Hey,
just encrypted several drives with veracrypt 1.24
After formating the drives and copying my files on it, I had the issue
that the old drive letters were still visible and I wanted to mount the encryped
drives on these letters.
In another forum they said in an older topic that I only have to delete the letters in the
windows disk managment. I did that and now I can't mount my drives anymore.
The error says "Wrong password or no Veracrypt Volume Source MountVolume:8334"
I tried to mount the drive with the header option, but this doesnt work as well.
I can still se the drive in the disk management but cant mount it. The password is correct
I have no clue what do to. Running Windows10 64bit.
Help would be highly appreciated,
I am having sililiar problems. Encrypted a USB drive on Windows 10 and had no problems for months except annoying boot up messages not recognizing the drive and asking for reformat.
After October 27th 2019, my encrypted USB drive was nowhere to be found. It shows up on Windows as a normal E: drive and Veracrypt automount can not find it anymore.
I traced back a Windows 10 update on the 26th and system restored, but didn't help.
PLEASE H E L P ! ! !
I have the same problem with a volume hide in a file (a txt file). I have used for months and suddenly it gave me error on opening. "Wrong password or no Veracrypt Volume Source MountVolume:8334". I'm sure that this is a Veracypt Volume and I'm sure about the password.
I can't tell if this really helps, but I'me constantly having the same issue (will post about it separately).
What I do: dismount the drives (2 of them) and restore the volume headers from embedded header files. Apparently, they are in fact mounted, but not readable due to a minute change within the hard drive, some error within the surface/file sructure that caused a change. That change makes the volume "unreadable".
I also saved the header files externally, just to make sure.
I wrote down what drive letters are usually being assigned, so I click the right ones to re-mount the volumes, so my system doesn't freak out.
Well after I couldn't rescue my data the last time and lost like tons of data, I would like to know how I could asure that this won't happens again to another encrypted drive. I backuped my header this time but do I have to backup it when the all the data is on the drive, when it's empty or everytime I add/delete data? Actually I'm not sure what information the header contains and what the purpose of the header is at all tbh.
What adittional steps could I take to prevent me from data loss again even if I reinstall windows10 on the current pc or move to another computer/OS?
I have no answer to your original issue of using Windows Disk Management to remove the drive letter for non-system VeraCrypt drives/partitions.
When you removed the Windows drive letter, did you have the VeraCrypt volumes dismounted?
Did you encrypt the partition or drive? When you mount using VeraCrypt for partitions, you will see devices to select as:
\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1I prefer to perform encryption of the partition which can be the size of the entire disk since when you remove the Windows assigned drive letter. This avoids being prompted by Windows to format the drive/partition.
Always have backups of your data due to hardware failure, software issues or user error can cause loss of access to the encrypted volumes and unecrypted drives.
For non-system encrypted volumes, I recommend making an external backup of the header. Click on Volume Tools button.
Last edit: Enigma2Illusion 2020-01-14
The original problem is lets call it "solved" because I just formated those drives again. I encrypted the drives in windows. Last time it shows an error stating that the drive contains partitions and I have to switch from GPD to MBR ? After switching the drives to MBR it showed two partitions in the disk management and I enrcypted the drives by "Create Volume/Encrypt a non-systen partition/drive/Standard VeraCrypt Volume/...". I choosed NTFS and AES and for all drives the same strong password.
What is the difference to encrypt a partition since its the same option? Verycrypt showed me the error exactly because the drive had a backup partition (~100MB shit). You make the partition first and then encrypt it? What is the benefit? In another post people said they would always prefer to encrypt the whole drive without a partition.
Last but not least, I dont have enough space to backup my whole data. In some time I'll afford a new larger drive to make a backup but at the time it's sadly no option.
I am not sure why you having problems creating or encrypting existing drive that is using GPT partitioning instead of MBR partitioning.
My external HDDs are encrypted using the GPT partitions without any issues.
You can create one partition to be the entire disk and then use VeraCrypt to encrypt that partition.
The advantages of encrypting a partition verses a drive without partitions are:
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During OS upgrades, I have gotten into the habit of physically disconnecting any HDDs that are VeraCrypt encrypted to avoid Windows from automatically formatting. Some users have reported this issue and other users did not have Windows automatically format the VeraCrypt volume. Better safe than sorry.
If you value your data, you need to have backup device whether you use encryption or not.
Last edit: Enigma2Illusion 2020-01-15
Interesting points, thank you. I'll try that with my next drive. Actually I currently updated windows with the drives connected but gladly there's no problem mounting them after that. But it was only a small update.
Make sure you have at least 1 verified backup, I have 3 even though I have never had a problem.
Better to be safe.
What do you mean with "verified"?
I made the backups on windows and linux just by (dis)mount the volume /tools/"Backup Volume Header" and clicking through the process.
Verified means it is an exact copy of the original file.
do a search for a "file copy program that can verify the copy" something along that line.
the copy & verified is for your files not the header, If you only have 1 the original and something happens you potentially now have no files.
Okay thank you for the information. As soon as I get another hard drive I'll backup all my files there and try some copy/verify tool.