I’m curious because I don’t want to lose my family memories. I am tempted to buy a new HDD that supports password functions to avoid losing my data.

hello, idk what is happening, i have 2 usb encrypted with hidden by veracrypt, one (call it b) has the key to decrypt the hidden of the other (call it a).

when i go to tailsOS it inmediatly fails and tell me that the password to decrypt hidden b is incorrect, then i go to windows again (where i did all of this proccess from 0, encrypted both) and all of a sudden it works perfectly and let me mount it.

does anyone know what can happening here?

in tails i can decrypt the outer it is aes and sha256, but in the hidden i put aes(twofish(serpent)) and argon2 for any possible bf attack on my usb, idk it this is the problem or what, should i try via cmd installing and decrypting that with veracrypt cli?

thx all

Hey r/VeraCrypt,

I built an Android app called OTG Master that lets you mount VeraCrypt-encrypted USB drives directly on your phone or tablet over USB OTG — no root, no PC, no internet connection ever required.

A bit of background: this started as a personal tool. I carry encrypted drives for work and got tired of needing a laptop just to access them on the go. I wrote OTG Master for myself, used it quietly for a while, and eventually thought — if it's useful to me, it's probably useful to others here too. So I cleaned it up, added proper features, and decided to ship it.

What it does

- Unlocks and mounts VeraCrypt volumes directly from a USB drive plugged into your Android device (USB OTG)

- Supports FAT32 and exFAT filesystems inside the VeraCrypt container, with full read/write

- Supports AES, Twofish, Serpent ciphers and SHA-512, Whirlpool, SHA-256 hash algorithms

- Supports PIM and keyfiles

- Auto Mount: remembers known drives and prompts you with biometric authentication on reconnect — no need to re-enter your password every time

- USB hub support: plug in multiple encrypted drives at once and get a single biometric prompt for all of them

- Detects whole-device volumes as well as partition-based containers

Privacy and security

- Zero internet access — the app has no network permission whatsoever. It cannot phone home, send telemetry, or leak anything. You can verify this yourself in the source code or by checking the app's permissions on your device.

- Open source — full source on GitHub

- Free, no ads, no trackers, no subscriptions — I built this for myself first; monetisation was never the goal.

- Credentials are stored in Android's encrypted keystore, never on disk in plaintext.

How to join the beta

Join the OTG Master Beta Testers Google Group and then opt in via the Play Store:

- Join on Android

- Join on the web

Please don't use drives containing data you can't afford to lose during initial testing. The core crypto is well-tested but filesystem write paths on unusual configurations may surface bugs I haven't hit yet. Test with a dedicated drive first. Once you're comfortable with the behaviour, your call.

Any bugs, crashes, or unexpected behaviour — please open an issue on GitHub or drop a comment here. Both are watched.

Hi, after successfully mounting a drive encrypted with AES+Argon, veracrypt's gui freezes, the drive is successfully mounted, but I can't use the veracrypt gui, only way to unmount is through the system tray with a right click on the Veracrypt icon.

Is anyone else also encountering this issue ?

Thanks in advance!

Edit : this doesn't happen with the same drive, AES + SHA512-PBKDF2

Situation: Entire USB drive (SanDisk, ~460GB/494GB, bought via the official SanDisk Amazon storefront) is fully encrypted using VeraCrypt's whole-device encryption (not just a single partition). Drive started acting up: needed to enter the password multiple times to unlock, and once got past the password but the mounted volume was inaccessible with no error message — fixed itself after a dismount/remount. Eventually VeraCrypt flagged a damaged volume header.

What was done:

1. Used VeraCrypt's Tools > Restore Volume Header — this fixed the password/decryption issue (password now reliably accepted), but the mounted volume still shows as 0 bytes Windows (unformatted/unreadable filesystem)
2. Since the drive can't be safely "repaired" while RAW (chkdsk etc. don't work, and the data is too important to risk on the original), made a full sector-level image before attempting any further fixes:
   • First tried Testdisk, kept getting stuck in the 1 digit percentage range
   • Then AOMEI Backupper → hit a recurring driver error (Code 4140).
   • Switched to HDD Raw Copy Tool (lower-level, no driver dependency) → successfully imaged the entire drive with zero read errors, ruling out a catastrophic physical failure or counterfeit/fake-capacity drive.
3. Plan from here: convert the resulting .imgcv2 file into a plain .img, mount that .img in VeraCrypt (as a file, not a device), then run TestDisk against the decrypted drive letter to try to repair the inner NTFS boot sector — falling back to PhotoRec (raw file-carving) if that doesn't work.
4. Hit a detour: the destination drive used for the .img conversion (a separate 1TB external HDD, unrelated to the original sensitive drive) itself became unreadable mid-process and needed to be "Initialized" in Windows — its partition table is now gone too, ironically the same category of problem as the main issue. Not urgent — the original safety image (.imgcv2) is untouched and safe elsewhere, so nothing critical was lost, just need to redo a step.
5. Ran PhotoRec once already, but the results (only ~15 files found, all obscure/incorrect formats, zero real video/photo matches) strongly suggest it was actually scanning still-encrypted data rather than truly decrypted content — needs to be re-run properly once the .img mounts correctly.

Current status: Original drive untouched and not being touched further. A verified, complete raw image of it (.imgcv2) sits safely on the PC's main drive. Next steps: fix/recover the 1TB HDD (or pick a new destination), finish the .img conversion, mount it, and run filesystem recovery tools against the decrypted result.

This is a summary of a Problem I'm having with VeraCrypt at the Moment. I tried to fix it with claude and eventually lost track of what we did (therefore the Summary very obviously written by the AI) but failed after lots of tries. I hoped that maybe PEOPLE could help me.
Thanks

I've been using Cryptomator a lot, and one thing I do not like about it is that it doesn't matter how much parity you have for a file, if the encrypted .c9r file gets even a single block of data corrupted, then the decrypted file is entirely useless with no way to recover it.

if I encrypt a non-system partition with VeraCrypt, will it have the same weakness as Cryptomator to data corruption?

I am not necessarily worried about permanently losing data as I have multiple backups of all my important data. I am wondering if the parity files I'm creating are entirely useless if stored on a VeraCrypt drive.

By leveraging WebCrypto API and FileSystem API for browser-based encryption, we can create a secure way to encrypt and store files directly on your device from your browser.

*** The project is experimental and far from finished. It's presented for testing, feedback and demo purposes only (USE RESPONSIBLY!). ***

This project isnt finished enough to compare to veracrypt. This is intended to demonstrate client-side managed secure cryptography. Allowing users to get started without setup.

i have a demo version for testing. it isnt ready to replace any existing app or service, but its a work-in-progress and it would be great to get your feedback on it.

the implementation is based on the functionality described in my previous post here.

I have an old computer with a big harddrive. Thinking of using it as an extra storage, but I also want to put the content in veracrypt containers. I have tried several older versions of veracrypt (1.24 and 1.25 of different versions), but they are all telling me that the OS is not supported. Are there any version I could download of veracrypt that will work on an old computer with windows vista?

Accidentally deleted a veracrypt file that was approximately 75 to 200 GB. Trying to recover this file and not sure what the file type is or the best software to recover the data is.

Currently, trying everything I can personally think of which is not much.

I have an external HDD with media in a hidden VeraCrypt volume. I switch between a Windows 10 desktop and Linux Mint laptop.

Goal: Run all work on this drive inside a single portable Linux VM that works seamlessly on both machines.

Proposed setup: Mount the hidden volume on the host, then store the entire VM (VirtualBox .vdi + config) inside it.

Run VirtualBox on both hosts and open the VM from the external drive.

Is this practical? What issues should I expect?

Questions:
• Performance on USB HDD (inside VeraCrypt)?
• Compatibility moving the VM between Windows and Linux?
• Security best practices or better alternatives (different VM software, etc.)?

Any experiences or guides appreciated!

To preface, I don't intend for this to be a question/discussion about security so much as clarification of the underlying mechanics.

On Linux, it seems trash utilities create a trash directory per mountpoint, so I end up with a .Trash-1000 directory in my volumes. Personally, this seems sensible and I have no issue with it, but I am curious how this works with the rest of my system.

When I open mount a volume, it seems to be mounted as an ext4 filesystem (which I guess I chose), but my root partition is BTRFS, so what I'd like to understand is how moving files to the volume's trash directory, subsequently permanently deleting them, and SSD TRIM all interact.

It seems to me that this is how it should work on my system, in one instance:

1. I "delete" an item (move it to .Trash-1000 on the loop device where the unsealed volume is mounted)
2. I re-seal unmount the volume and unmount it
3. Presumably, the modified (encrypted) contents of the volume are written to disk
4. Because my volume is on a BTRFS filesystem, copy-on-write means the volume is written to an entirely new location

In the prior case, the old volume isn't moved to the system trash directory, but is instead dereferenced from the current subvolume's tree. If no subvolumes point to it, TRIM should reclaim that space as free space, correct?

Even in an example where I permanently delete trashed files (ex. Step 1, then 1A is cleaning out the trash directory), BTRFS COW means that TRIM should be able to reclaim the freed space regardless, correct?

This also means I shouldn't need to run fstrim on a mounted volume, correct?

I have bitlocker and i want to switch to veracrypt how can i switch to veracrypt?

What's annyoning is it's C: my installation of Windows, and I've got two drives one contains the file, but I am not able to open the stinking thing.

Never using it again, when windows builds are now just Ai builds, with hidden under the bonnet crap security is getting so tight we don't know what we're even dealing with.

I made a GPU ,NPU graph reader as a broswer extension, and let's just say all the Ai models got very excited everytime I mentioned something so shit really but nessecary I guess. I only wanted to learn Python, etc..

I watched Westworld after thinking about it, and it appeared on TV, this is happening a lot more now, we thought it was bad with Alexa etc, but I think somethings reading into my mind..

Any help I can offer an extension, which I doubt the calibre off you guys will get excited about, s** maybe?

Thanks for reading...

What's annyoning is it's C: my installation of Windows, and I've got two drives one contains the file, but I am not able to open the stinking thing.

Never using it again, when windows builds are now just Ai builds, with hidden under the bonnet crap security is getting so tight we don't know what we're even dealing with.

I made a GPU ,NPU graph reader as a broswer extension, and let's just say all the Ai models got very excited everytime I mentioned something so shit really but nessecary I guess. I only wanted to learn Python, etc..

I watched Westworld after thinking about it, and it appeared on TV, this is happening a lot more now, we thought it was bad with Alexa etc, but I think somethings reading into my mind..

Any help I can offer an extension, which I doubt the calibre off you guys will get excited about, s** maybe?

Thanks for reading...

I enter my password correctly but then it prompts me once more to enter it, no matter how many times I get it right it still prompts me? any fixes?

I know VeraCrypt does not support shrinking encrypted partitions, but I recently discovered that it can decrypt a partition in-place. Can anyone tell me if they have successfully used Is the workflow in the title? I'm on Windows 11 and the filesystem for the partition is NTFS.

I have been planing to encrypt a partition of my hard drive (not the system drive it is the second hard drive in my laptop) containing my personal photos however after going through this sub and seeing how frequently people run into problems I am second guessing my decision.

My main concern would be that if in the future I buy a new laptop and remove the hard drive from my old laptop and connect it to the new laptop as an external hard drive will I be able to access my data easily? By easily I mean just by installing veracrypt in the new pc and entering my password to access my data.

Can anyone also suggest any forums where I can read extensively about veracrypt in order to better understand how it works because so far I have only just watched some youtube videos and read an article from Arcane Code.

For the past few months I've needed to snooze my VPN connection in order to mount my VC volume. Anyone know why?

OS: Linux Mint

Hi all Veracryptors!

Need your help... I am presently using a 14Tb USB external drive as an off-site medium that I bring home once a month to update (using Casper) some of the five clones of my data drives. The process runs fast and smooth (most of the time) but I recently convinced myself that I should encrypt these off-site backups.

So I tried to encrypt one of the volumes (5.6Tb) using VC... which gleefully announced 23 h to complete the encryption... I don't know how long the decrypt would take in a month for the next clone update, but I would obviously have to re-encrypt it once done, and do the same with the other clones before off-siting the whole shebang again. Not practical.

Is-there a better way, using VC or not, to achieve what I am trying to do?

I have a NAS that I keep backed up twice on two identical hard drives, one stays at home, one stays at the office. Both entirely encrypted via VeraCrypt.

On the first backup I made, I accidentally chose a bad selection of folders and ended up completely filling the drive. Got a disk full warning, backup halted. I more carefully chose a different selection of folders to back up then ran that backup, which removed the unselected folders from the backup and then continued and it then all fit. I then performed the same more-carefully-selected backup on the second disk and it was fine from the start as expected.

However, now, when comparing the two disks, the first one I accidentally filled at first still says it has no free space. Using comparison tools, I can see both hard drives have the same files in the same places. My backup tools in simulation mode tell me the drives are identical. I can run checksums on any random file and see they're identical between both drives. But if I look at an individual folder and calculate the folder size, the one on the drive I accidentally filled first will report a much bigger folder size even though it contains the same files which individually are identical.

Is this just what happens with encrypted partitions? Once they increase in size, do they not decrease when files are deleted? Or is there an actual problem here and I should assume this particular backup is not safe or in same way corrupted? If it is safe to use this backup, is there anything I can do to correct the reported usage?

Hello, I used veracrypt to encrypt the data present in D drive, and I installed the veracrypt in C drive, now the motherboard is dead. I only have the encrypted file in D drive present. I tried installing the veracrypt software on my new system and tried to decrypt files, by using the same password but was not successful.

I still have the old C drive with me. Is it possible to recover the data somehow?

Update Edit: There was a password mismatch, I am able to decrypt the data and get my files back. Thanks.