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Hi all!
I'm using Veracrypt full disk encryption for my Windows 10. However, since today I'm not able to boot anymore. After entering my password, it's stuck in de veracrypt bootloader.
This is on my screen:
Authorizing...
Success
Start 0 594542592 len 229859393536
_
[No more into/ text on the screen...]
So the password is correct, but it is not continuing to the Windows loading screen. I have lost my veracrypt rescue drive, so that cannot help me. Are you able to help me?
Thanks soo much!
Last edit: skoning 2018-05-06
I have the same problem. Check in MSDOS if your boot partition is still NTFS. Mine is RAW.
No one helps here from VC crew....this software is a real mess and it should not be released to general public.
Hi Alex,
I've found a solution, its not optimal, but you'll have access to your files.
Connect your SDD/HDD to another computer that boots and use Veracrypt to decode your disk (see below) And make a backup to a different disk, and install Windows again.
Run VeraCrypt, click Select Device, select the affected system partition, click OK , select System > Mount Without Pre-Boot Authentication, enter your pre-boot-authentication password and click OK. The partition will be mounted as a regular VeraCrypt volume (data will be on-the-fly decrypted/encrypted in RAM on access, as usual).
https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/VeraCrypt%20Rescue%20Disk.html
Let me know if this works for you!
Wow...this is crazy promising! I would give anything to get access to my files. I got my HDD out and made sector by sector copy to an external.
Right now I get a message that the encryption needs to be completed first. This makes sense because I defered encryption after about 2 min. How to do it, I am not sure yet.
What amazes me, the stupid virus ( I mean VC) got to all important files in those 2 min and I can't recover them using recovery software!
Thanks for your help!
I'm also just recently experiencing this issue. Strangly It only happends every other time I try to boot so I am still able to access my files. I'm afraid it will escilate to leaving my OS completley inaccessable as the OP is experiencing. Hopeing someone will have some advice for us soon.
Last edit: Andrew 2018-05-23
Did not work for me. I assume interrupting encryption ( which suppose to be a feature) just messes everything up. This program should be removed as it does so much harm to people!
Perhaps there is a commonalty between skoning, Andrew and Alex Kay PC's.
What brand and model is your PC?
What version of VeraCrypt?
What version of Windows? (Click on the lower left Windows icon, type winver and then hit return)
Was your PC using MBR or UEFI for the OS?
I sure the developer has tested the deferred option on his system successfully and he appreciates users that report issues in a constructive manner.
Remember that this is an Open Source project with one developer, Mounir Idrassi, handling the many features of VeraCrypt across three OS platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows) and another volunteer developer that help create the UEFI encryption (Alex) that are performing development, testing, bug fixes and releasing software during their free personal time after working a fulltime job and family commitments for little to no monetary compensation. You can donate here.
As with many Open Source projects, the developers rely on the user community to help each other with issues due to the overwhelming requests for assistance.
Beta software is released to the VeraCrypt community with the hope that users are willing to test new upcoming versions to find issues before the next version is released since it is impossible for the developers to have test machines from the many PC makers, Windows, Linux, Mac OS versions and disk partitioning configurations for testing. Hence, the developers rely on the VeraCrypt user community to help test the beta releases.
In closing, I will remind everyone that you should have backups of your data whether you use encryption or not since hardware failure, user error and/or software errors can cause loss of data at any time.
As an example, I had one external HDD that failed within several hours of starting to get write errors which had nothing to do with VeraCrypt.
Last edit: Enigma2Illusion 2018-05-26
If Veracrypt was presented as a project run by one guy in his spare time - then I would have never downloaded this crap. But if you search on the internet for encryption software -VC comes up as number one solution! TrueCrypt was a great soft - it worked for me for years without issues!
And most people are careless enough not to backup anything. Do you backup your data when you install a Microsoft product for example? I don't.
Enigma...I have a Sony FIT15 laptop with Windows8.1 ( 6.3)preistalled, UEFI.
But it doesn't matter because during encryption I clicked Defer and my file system became RAW...I assume the partition table and its backup was destroyed by Veracrypt. I can't read anything off the disk in a regular manner and only data recovery software recovered about 50% of files.
And no I will not be donating any money today.
TrueCrypt was developed and maintained by two developers working on it in their spare time.
TrueCrypt had its own issues with system and non-system encryption that were resolved after many releases. Then the TrueCrypt developers stopped enhancing the software which is lacking support for UEFI and they stopped releasing bug fixes that users were reporting on the forums.
Also the TrueCrypt developers did not participate in their forums which was very frustrating since enhancement ideas and bug issues could not be discussed with user input to improve the ideas or provide better feedback for bug troubleshooting.
Before I started using encryption with the early versions of TrueCrypt, I have endured data loss due to hardware failure, software bugs and my own mistakes which taught me the important lesson of having backups of my data. Also, I image my system drive any time before patching or installing any software no matter who is the vendor to provide a fallback plan and I backup important data to encrypted external drives.
I understand your anger that you lost your data when you defer the encryption and then you were unable to resume the system encryption. No one likes to lose their data.
Thousands of people download VeraCrypt weekly if you look at the download statistics and you do not see thousands of users reporting issues on the forums weekly or monthly.
Does that mean VeraCrypt is perfect? No. There are issues that will eventually get resolved as the developer has time and cooperative users help him test the beta software.
To my knowledge, there is not another viable Open Source encryption software that is still being actively developed and supported. Since TrueCrypt does not support UEFI system encryption and you dislike VeraCrypt, your only other option is to purchase a commercial encryption product.
Last edit: Enigma2Illusion 2018-05-30
I have the same problem.
veracrypt 1.23 Hotfix-2 portable downloaded and installed. Running full disk encryption and after clicking on "Test", restarting, I enter the correct password and it appears:
Success
Start 0 122683392 len 0
and it does not go on
Notebook
IOTA 2320
Windows 10 newest update
What can I do ?
I am encountering the same problem (I have already posted here https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/f2aa6ff0/?limit=25#4e7a
sorry for duplication I am trying to provide as much input as possible).
However when I boot my Laptop using Ubuntu Live stick, I see my Windows partition mounted under /dev/sda3/ and from Ubuntu I have access to my windows files. Although the partition supposed to be encrypted via veracrypt. Inside from Ubuntu, when I try to decrypt my partition permanently using Veracrypt for Ubuntu, it fails.
Is this problem already solved ?