I encountered the same problem, "Windows failed to format the volume as NTFS/exFAT/ReFS. Do you want to format the volume as FAT instead?" Eventually for the sake of it, I accepted FAT just to see how far it would take me. It finished creating the encrypted container. I was also able to mount it, but!!!! When I tried to access this mounted volume, Windows complained NOT accessible! But now I had new keywords, "not accessible", to take me further. Using the following key words, "veracrypt windows...