James

I have an internal 4TB HDD encrypted with veracrpyt that I use as an extra storage drive. One day a database program I had running on it started to freeze while it was still writing to the drive along with anything related to the drive. I panicked because I couldn't even open my task manager in Windows and did a force shutdown on my PC and when I restarted, I heard a couple of clicking noises before going back to normal. When I got back into Windows I noticed Windows doesn't recognize the drive anymore...

Sorry for the late reply but I ended up using quick format before I saw your last post. It's just not worth it, I'd have to stop it from overheating every hour and continue to constantly monitor it hourly. Sadly I wasn't able to see the CPU temps. I just wanted to know why now all of a sudden, I never had this issue when I first encrypted this drive. I even encrypt another external drive just days before this topic and had no issue either.

Sorry for the late reply but I ended up using quick format before I saw your last post. It's just not worth it, I'd have to stop it from overheating every hour and continue to constantly monitor it hourly. Sadly I wasn't able to see the CPU temps.

Now that you mention it the temps were pretty high, like 120 something degrees to where CrystalDisk was giving me a yellow warning. Like I mentioned earlier, I don't remember it taking this long or getting this hot the first time I encrypted this drive. It's just a normal external HDD that plugs into a laptop's USB ports, both of which have USB 3.0. I've tried using different USB ports on the laptop but still the same results. The CPU was normal, not even touching 50%. It's a Intel based laptop using...

I'm trying to encrypt my entire 5TB external HDD using a full encryption using AES-256 and SHA-512. I left it alone and came back saying it would take 9 days to fully encrypt with speed down to 11-14 MiB/s. The speeds starts off high but slowly goes down the longer it encrypts. The problem is, this isn't the first time I've encrypted this particular HDD, after another issue involving VeraCrypt that was never solved, forcing me to reformat the whole drive and removing VeraCrypt all together. I decided...

I just checked, drives were already in Quick Removal.

Just like the opening poster, I can't use VeraCrypt in safe mode. All the non core drivers are disabled when in Safe mode. I even went and confirmed this. "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode Source:wWinMain:9878" So if I can't run VeraCrypt then I can't use Chkdsk.

Just like the opening poster, I can't use VeraCrypt in safe mode. All the non core drivers are disabled when in Safe mode. I even went and confirmed this. "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode Source:wWinMain:9878" So if I can't run VeraCrypt then I can't use Chkdsk.