VeraCrypt Expander

Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid

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VeraCrypt Expander

Forum: Technical Topics

Creator: Adrian Kentleton

Created: 2017-06-12

Updated: 2017-06-12

Adrian Kentleton - 2017-06-12

There is no documentation for this feature. Has anyone been able to get it to work? I can't; I'm running VC 1.19 on Win 7.

The 200GB RAW partiton is my (NTFS-formatted) Veracrypt partition-hosted volume:

This is the Expander interface:

This is what happens after I 'mount' the device:

Why, please?

Last edit: Adrian Kentleton 2020-06-11

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Enigma2Illusion - 2017-06-12

There is no free space on the 200 GB partition to expand the VeraCrypt volume. See link below for instructions of how to add the unused 22 GB space to the current 200 GB partition in Windows.

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/04a76893/?limit=25#d6fe

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Adrian Kentleton - 2017-06-12

Thanks, Enigma2Illusion, operation completed!

Very counter-intuitive to muck about with VeraCrypt devices after the event with third party disk tools!

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- Enigma2Illusion - 2017-06-12
  
  I would not consider Microsoft Disk Management a third party disk tool since it is part of the Windows OS.
  
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