Paul M Ruzicka

Ok, that makes more sense now. And I disabled the Mount all hosted VeraCrypt volumes in Preferences and then under Favorite Volumes, I enabled Mount selected volume at logon. Works fine now. Thanks so much for your help.

No. Just an .hc volume.

Yeah, I see that now. Yes, background was enabled. Even though it didn't make sense that the antivirus was interfering (since if I cancel and open VeraCrypt and click on Mount and type the password the drive is mounted with antivirus running) - I checked with it turned off and it had no effect (still would not mount the drive).

Windows version and build version? 21H1 (OS Build 19043.1083) Version of VeraCrypt? 1.24 - update 7 (64-bit) Type of encryption (disk or partition)? AES? Partition? USB external drive or drive installed internally? Volume is part of internal drive Antivirus and malware software being used on your systems? Vipre 11.0.6.22 Do you use VeraCrypt setting Secure Desktop? No Are your passwords greater than 64 characters? Nope, 20 characters In Settings > Preferences, do you have both VeraCrypt Background...

I am clueless as to what is going on with my auto mount. I am a novice with VeraCrypt. I created a 2G encrypted file/drive and set it up to automount at WIndows logon. So at Windows startup, the password window for my file/drive pops up and I type the password and I get an error. Yet if I open VeraCrypt and do a manual mount, I type in the same password and it mounts without issue. I am clueless as to why this is happening, and would like some help to figure out what I have set up incorrectly here....