How to prepare USB drive?
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Hello,
I purchased a new 32GB USB Flash Drive I want to encrypt.
I used diskpart to wipe the factory partition. Disk manangement shows the space as unallocated.
When I try and select the device as a new non system device in VeraCrypt it says I need to remove all partitions first before I can continue (which I thought I had done?)
What is the proper way to do this? I assume I need to get the drive show as not initialized in Windows first, but unsure how.
Thanks for any help.
I think this has to do with the way Windows initializes USB drives. Diskpart->Clean SAYS that it clears the first 1Mb on the drive, but I found that it only deleted the partition table from Sector 0, but left the MBR code. This is apparently what triggers VeraCrypt into thinking there are partitions on the disk...
I zeroed the 1st sector using WinHex but there are other disk utilities out there which will allow you to do the same. Also Diskpart-Clean All will do the same thing, but it will take a LONG time...
After zeroing the first sector, you should be able to select the device (something like "Removable Disk 1:") and encrypt it completely.
Hope this helps (if you're still monitoring this thread)