I have Veracrypt installed on a USB drive. I have been using it for a couple of months. I just went to open it today and some of the drive letter options that are usually available for me to mount on are missing from the list. Does anyone have any idea why this is the case and how I can resolve it? Thanks!
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If you are willing to use the DriveCleanup utility below to remove all currently non present USB Storage Devices, Disks, CDROMs, Floppies, Storage Volumes and WPD devices from the device tree. Furthermore it removes orphaned registry items related to these device types.
Create a directory and unzip the software files into the directory.
Start a command line prompt as Administrator.
In the command window, change into the directory where you unzipped the files.
If you are using 64-bit Windows OS, change into x64 subdirectory.
If you are using 32-bit Windows OS, change into Win32 subdirectory.
Dismount all VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt volumes.
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Use the following command to view what the DriveCleanup utility will remove from the registry:
drivecleanup -T
To remove the items from the registry:
drivecleanup
Reboot PC after running utility.
Any USB that was not currently connected to your PC will be install again by Windows and you may have to manually reassign the drive letters in Windows Disk Management if you had certain drive letters assigned for an external hard drive or thumbdrives.
@ Enigma2Illusion.
Many thanks to your quick response.
In the end I found out the source of my drive gulper was the Virtual Drive Clone program which kept reserved two of my missing drives.
"dif-tor heh smusma" to quote Spock :-)
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I have Veracrypt installed on a USB drive. I have been using it for a couple of months. I just went to open it today and some of the drive letter options that are usually available for me to mount on are missing from the list. Does anyone have any idea why this is the case and how I can resolve it? Thanks!
Same with me. No longer get the option offered to link a vercrypt container to my drive K.
Though it worked just fine in the recent past.
Qualified suggestions weill be highly appreciated. Thank you.
Note: I use VeraCrypt 1.22 (32-bit) on Win7
If you are willing to use the DriveCleanup utility below to remove all currently non present USB Storage Devices, Disks, CDROMs, Floppies, Storage Volumes and WPD devices from the device tree. Furthermore it removes orphaned registry items related to these device types.
.
Use the following command to view what the DriveCleanup utility will remove from the registry:
drivecleanup -T
To remove the items from the registry:
drivecleanup
Reboot PC after running utility.
Any USB that was not currently connected to your PC will be install again by Windows and you may have to manually reassign the drive letters in Windows Disk Management if you had certain drive letters assigned for an external hard drive or thumbdrives.
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/drivecleanup.zip
Last edit: Enigma2Illusion 2019-03-08
@ Enigma2Illusion.
Many thanks to your quick response.
In the end I found out the source of my drive gulper was the Virtual Drive Clone program which kept reserved two of my missing drives.
"dif-tor heh smusma" to quote Spock :-)