Ezra Villan

I was able to encrypt the 14TB drive but only if it was exFAT and if it was formatted through veracrypt with the original enclosure. Attempting to encrypt with NTFS gave the same error that "Veracrypt was unable to finish the formatting" and that "it failed to create the container". I didn't attempt to use the dock out of fear that it would be a waste of time. Interestingly the drive before encrypting was formatted as exFAT. I'm not sure if this is just a coincidence.

I only use the dock to connect the drives without the additional bulk of the enclosure. I did try to use the original enclosure to encrypt without any luck. See my reply to Marks. I have no clue what else it could be.

You were correct the dock was causing a different output. I reassembled the enclosure ran it again and got 4096-byte physical sectors with 512-byte logical sectors. Everything seemed to work well with Veracrypt so I tried to perform a full disk encryption only to get the same result. I tried to encrypt in place without any luck. At this point I'm thinking it could be the hardware/software on my computer. I have drive, a 14TB (also a white label WD drive) that I'm thinking of testing out to see if...

It's a WD white drive model "WD120EMFZ". Its shucked from a WD EasyStore product. There is only a single partition on the drive taking up the entire size of the drive. When creating the volume I'm choosing to encrypt that partition. I'm unsure whether I need to remove that partition and attempt to encrypt the entire device instead. I'm using a docking station to connect the drive. Specifically: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WS59SP4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have the...

It's a WD white drive model "WD120EMFZ". Its shucked from a WD EasyStore product. There is only a single partition on the drive taking up the entire size of the drive. When creating the volume I'm choosing to encrypt that partition. I'm unsure whether I need to remove that partition and attempt to encrypt the entire device instead. I'm using a docking station to connect the drive. Specifically: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WS59SP4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have the...

Can you share what settings you used for your Toshiba? Did you change anything from the default settings? I'll give it another shot. Encryption Algorithm Hash Algorithm Filesystem Cluster Quick Format?

Thank you for your response! I get the following: Bytes Per Sector : 512 Bytes Per Physical Sector : 512 Bytes Per Cluster : 4096 I have 4096 for "Bytes Per Cluster" instead of "Bytes Per Physical Sector:" but I do have 512 for "Bytes Per Sector : ". I'm not sure how to interpret this. Those this suggest it is compatible? On a separate note. I tried to create a container within the drive and was able to only when having VeraCrypt format it as FAT. NTFS and exFAT returned errors. The drive has always...

This only occurs when trying to format a large external SATA hard drives (12TB) and not with smaller USB devices (tested up to 128GB). After completion of creating a new volume, Veracrypt will fail to format the volume. I'll mount it and try to format it using Windows but I just get a vague message every time that it failed to format the volume. I can't enter the volume or move files into it. Third party software doesn't detect the mounted container for some reason. I've also tried to do the encryption...