2 days ago tornados came thru my area and luckily we had no damage however my office was broken into during the warnings. Ive used veracrypt for about 2 years with no problems. I stored all my sensitive folders and files in a container on my laptop and backed up everything on a 2 tig external hard drive that was also encrypted using Veracrypt. Here is my issue and Im hoping someone can assist me. I purchased a new laptop set it up and downloaded the same veracrypt version. After the download was complete I plugged in external and choose a volume, chose automount device as normal and the drive mounted with no issues, same banner exactly the same nothing looked different. However when clicking on the volume i received a message that said I needed to format the drive first and that there was no recognizable drive. As i looked again at the banner i noticed it said 1.8 tigs when normally it said 1.2 tigs. Disk manager showed the drive as 1828 gigs of raw data when i had around 600 used gigs on there. I backed up every night and every night I always unmounted the drive remounted and clicked on the external drive to verify the files and folders were indeed backed up. Im stuck, I dont know if there is any hope and I dont know what happened. I can mount the drive still using my password without any issues just cant open the volume or see any files. I use Windows 11 with a 1000 gig ssd, 16 gigs of ram on a Acer laptop. As I said this was 2 days ago. I havent tried anything becasue i figure if there is any hope dont f@ck it up trying something I dont know how to do. A close friend of mine suggested I try here because this is where the absolute most knowledgeable individuals are. Any help or direction would be apprieciated. Thank you
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Are you sure you're not trying to access the original raw device rather than the disk letter you mounted it at? What do you mean when you say that normally it says 1.2TB when your drive was 2TB? Was it only a normal volume, no hidden?
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2 days ago tornados came thru my area and luckily we had no damage however my office was broken into during the warnings. Ive used veracrypt for about 2 years with no problems. I stored all my sensitive folders and files in a container on my laptop and backed up everything on a 2 tig external hard drive that was also encrypted using Veracrypt. Here is my issue and Im hoping someone can assist me. I purchased a new laptop set it up and downloaded the same veracrypt version. After the download was complete I plugged in external and choose a volume, chose automount device as normal and the drive mounted with no issues, same banner exactly the same nothing looked different. However when clicking on the volume i received a message that said I needed to format the drive first and that there was no recognizable drive. As i looked again at the banner i noticed it said 1.8 tigs when normally it said 1.2 tigs. Disk manager showed the drive as 1828 gigs of raw data when i had around 600 used gigs on there. I backed up every night and every night I always unmounted the drive remounted and clicked on the external drive to verify the files and folders were indeed backed up. Im stuck, I dont know if there is any hope and I dont know what happened. I can mount the drive still using my password without any issues just cant open the volume or see any files. I use Windows 11 with a 1000 gig ssd, 16 gigs of ram on a Acer laptop. As I said this was 2 days ago. I havent tried anything becasue i figure if there is any hope dont f@ck it up trying something I dont know how to do. A close friend of mine suggested I try here because this is where the absolute most knowledgeable individuals are. Any help or direction would be apprieciated. Thank you
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Are you sure you're not trying to access the original raw device rather than the disk letter you mounted it at? What do you mean when you say that normally it says 1.2TB when your drive was 2TB? Was it only a normal volume, no hidden?