kkdja

Thanks to Enigma2Illusion for the patient guidance. Totally my bad - one epic facepalm moment! 🤦‍♂️ Picture this: I got two identical black MyBook 16TB drives - twins, I tell ya! One came with WD Security encryption (let's call it Drive A), while the other didn't (Drive B, which I encrypted using Veracrypt). Like a genius, I didn't bother labeling them. What could go wrong, right? 🙈 Fast forward a few months, and boom! I mixed them up like a DJ mixing tracks! There I was, trying to unlock Drive A...

I've attempted to mount the volume by switching between both local user and Microsoft account login methods, and automatic mounting doesn't work either. I'm absolutely certain that my password is correct. When I tried to repair the encrypted volume, I still got "Access Denied" errors.

This is a 16TB MyBook external hard drive that was encrypted using VeraCrypt with full disk encryption, and there are no hidden partitions. I suspect my encrypted volume might be lost. I remember when I first encrypted it successfully (October 9, 2024), after encryption, as shown in the attached image, the "vera" drive initially had partition labels like "partition1, partition2" similar to "myPC" (my local SSD). However, now as shown in the image, it only displays as one whole 16.4TB "Harddisk"....

Access was denied by the operating system. Possible cause:The operating system requires that you have read/write permission (or administrator privileges)for certain folders,files,and devices,in order for you to be allowed to read and write data to/from them.Normally,a user without administrator privileges is allowed to create,read and modify files in his or her Documents folder. Source:MountVolume:8899 my version is 1.26.15 system is Windows11 22H2 Attempted Solutions: Verified password input (checked...