VeraCrypt crashes Windows 10 without any Blue Screen

[Chainsaw72]

Hello. I'm using VeraCrypt since many years, I never had a problem. I have a container file with 250GB filesize, and hundred thousands of different files in it. One week ago problems started: I mounted the container as drive X: and searched with windows explorer for files with large filesize, and unexpected, the complete Windows 10 system crashed and rebooted. No blue screen, even if the "blue screen feature" isn't disabled at my Windows 10. I tried again, sometimes it is working a while, or sometimes if I browse around in the different folders, the crash occurs again. It also happens, when I mark all folders on the mounted drive, and choose properties: The system starts counting the files, and then Windows 10 is crashing and rebooting. It also happens when I use the checkdisk command. Other functions of my Windows 10 and file handling on the hard disks (no VeraCrypt containers/partitions) are working well. I also updated VeraCrypt to 1.26.24 (64bit).

Windows system logs showing only a critical event "Kernel-Power - system was restarted, after it wasn't shut down properly" (Some kind of this message, I translated it from German to English.) Some kind of "not handled error".

I'm not sure, if it started happening after the latest Windows 10 update about one week ago, but it's too late to revert this update. I have Windows 10, 22H2, Build 19045.6093. Maybe a problem could also be Acronis True Image, which intervenes deeply in the file handling of the system , but there was no update / no problem in the last month. (But I don't want to use it to revert the latest system changes, because the rest of my system is working well, also hard disk tests with Crystal Disk, RAM tests etc. showing, that everything is OK - only VeraCrypt started crashing during handling the container file content when it is mounted as a drive... PS: I also created a new container with 250GB and tried to copy the files, but also the new container is crashing from time to time. File system of the container is NTFS.)