Spent like 2 hours encrypting an usb only to get a “VeraCrypt is not responding” window on Debian, 100% was reached but it’s doing nothing.. so what do I do? I Force Quit and assume it’s all right? or do I have to spend another 2 hours? wtf man, waste of time. Anyway I Force Quitted and now it show…

I know that this could be something wrong with the Veracrypt process, but every SSD and USB stick I’ve seen something like this happen to during formatting had complete drive failure shortly after. So I would say you should at least take that into account. I would say the safest option is just refo…

I don’t know how luks works beyond just using it on the “Guided” setting during installin Debian and that’s it. I don’t understand why it does not encrypt the boot partition, unlike Veracrypt for windows which does, but other than that I assume it’s safe and strong. For containers and USB since I s…

It’s possible Windows pulls something off with the TPM I’m not aware of but generally the boot partition cannot be encrypted since the computer needs to boot with enough drivers to decrypt the rest of the drive before you can type the password. Veracrypt just replaces the Windows boot partition wit…

Is it possible for Veracrypt to damage a USB drive or USB HDD/SSD? Is it safer to use the most recent version of Veracrypt??? :scream:

[image] Average_Joe: Is it possible for Veracrypt to damage a USB drive or USB HDD/SSD? No, it can not. I don’t know about HDDs, but on USB sticks or SSD if “bricked”, refer to this guide I wrote

No. But depending on the setup it might look that way. Using the latest version is still recommended practice. A Veracrypt container is just like any other file. You should be able to see it on the USB. A Veracrypt drive/partition will however display as a RAW partition. Windows would regard thi…

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No, it can not. I don’t know about HDDs, but on USB sticks or SSD if “bricked”, refer to this guide I wrote

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