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New Post: Computer freezes completely

February 16, 2016, 7:56 am
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I have a bizarre new problem.
("New" because I have been using veracrypt in my system for quite some time now, with no problems.)

The symptom is this:

Veracrypt encrypted external hard disk is mounted, I start working on it, and suddenly the whole system freezes. Not just veracrypt or the programs I am using the mounted volume with. The whole system, a Windows 10, 64bit, 16GB RAM desktop computer.

When this happens, nothing works: not alt-control-delete, not task manager, nothing.
The system is dead.

I have to turn off the system and turn it on again.

The same veracrypt disk can be mounted successfully on a different system, a laptop.
The system there is Win 10, 64bit, 8GB RAM.
I can use the mounted volume there with no problems at all.

Now: A bit of background:

Prior to this problem appearing, my desktop had Veracrypt v1.16 installed.

Yesterday I decided to install v1.17. Installation completed successfully.

Then, the strange behaviour begun.
The system just froze five minutes or so in my working with the mounted volume.

I thought that there is a stability problem with v1.17 and for that reason I decided to completely uninstall v1.17, and install v1.16 again.

I did.

Unfortunately the problem has stayed with me.
After few minutes, the system freezes to death.

I do not know whether the problem is indeed with the new version. It seems so, but I do not want to check it, by installing v.1.17 on the laptop and see what happens.

Access to the encrypted disk is mission critical for me, and I cannot gamble here.

The problem is I do not know what to do, or what might be the problem.

If you could give me some directions and / or ideas I would be more than grateful.

Thank you.

pwei
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New Post: Computer freezes completely

February 16, 2016, 8:46 am
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It's strange coinscidence, but this looks like you have a bad sector. I use the latest version of verarypt too (and previous for some time too), but everything works normally. When you lay your ear to your hard disk during the freeze, do you hear repetitve clicking sounds? If yes, this is when hard disk tries to reread the bad sector.

You can do a surface test using program like hdtune.
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New Post: Update to Version 1.17

February 16, 2016, 8:54 am
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As far as I know, memory should not survive a reboot, but the password could be stored somewhere on disk, read after the reboot from there and then securely wiped. But this could be a big security hole, if improperly used. You can request it in the issues menu.
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New Post: Computer freezes completely

February 16, 2016, 9:17 am
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Hi testoslav

Thanks for your reply.
If it was a bad sector, the problem would be evident when mounting the disk with the laptop, as well.

This, however, is not the case.
With the laptop I can use the mounted volume with no problem at all, for as much as needed.

:-/
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New Post: Update to Version 1.17

February 16, 2016, 9:29 am
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I'll try to update to 1.17 and let's see how the verification time changes.

Yes it is 16 Bit - but could be 32 or even 64.... this would make much more sense for me to implement than some of the other changes that came along with the recent updates.

I want an unbreakable system. That's why I use high pim AND long / good password.
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New Post: Update to Version 1.17

February 16, 2016, 9:40 am
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It really is faster. Not 50 %. But I would guess something about 30-40%.

But 4-5 minutes still is a long time...
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Closed Issue: VeraCrypt fails to list partitions and drives [380]

February 16, 2016, 2:47 pm
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I have only seen this problem on Windows 10 (x64): When you click the Select Device button, to select an encrypted partition, there is a long delay then the Device selection window appears with a malformed list of devices. For instance, \Partition1 of drive 2 appears as a partition of drive 1. It happens to me about one or two times a week (I mount volumes multiple times each day). I have no clue what causes this. I thought it was a bogus external harddrive, which I then removed from the system, and yet the problem persists - occasionally.

See the attached image for an example of how the Device list is corrupted.
Comments: The fix is included in version 1.17 that has been release. I'm closing this ticket. If you still encounter an issue, please feel free to reopen it and post any new information.
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Edited Issue: VeraCrypt fails to list partitions and drives [380]

February 16, 2016, 2:47 pm
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I have only seen this problem on Windows 10 (x64): When you click the Select Device button, to select an encrypted partition, there is a long delay then the Device selection window appears with a malformed list of devices. For instance, \Partition1 of drive 2 appears as a partition of drive 1. It happens to me about one or two times a week (I mount volumes multiple times each day). I have no clue what causes this. I thought it was a bogus external harddrive, which I then removed from the system, and yet the problem persists - occasionally.

See the attached image for an example of how the Device list is corrupted.
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Commented Unassigned: Release 1.17 doesn't compile [389]

February 16, 2016, 2:52 pm
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When I try to compile newest release 1.17 with both shared and static WxWidgets it dies with this error:
```
[ 500s] CommandLineInterface.cpp: In constructor 'VeraCrypt::CommandLineInterface::CommandLineInterface(int, wchar_t**, VeraCrypt::UserInterfaceType::Enum)':
[ 500s] CommandLineInterface.cpp:404:40: error: cannot convert 'wxString' to 'const wchar_t*' for argument '1' to 'VeraCrypt::SharedPtr<VeraCrypt::VolumePassword> VeraCrypt::ToUTF8Password(const wchar_t*, size_t)'
[ 500s] ArgNewPassword = ToUTF8Password (str);
[ 500s] ^
[ 500s] CommandLineInterface.cpp:443:37: error: cannot convert 'wxString' to 'const wchar_t*' for argument '1' to 'VeraCrypt::SharedPtr<VeraCrypt::VolumePassword> VeraCrypt::ToUTF8Password(const wchar_t*, size_t)'
[ 500s] ArgPassword = ToUTF8Password (str);
[ 500s] ^
[ 500s] CommandLineInterface.cpp:484:60: error: cannot convert 'wxString' to 'const wchar_t*' for argument '1' to 'VeraCrypt::SharedPtr<VeraCrypt::VolumePassword> VeraCrypt::ToUTF8Password(const wchar_t*, size_t)'
[ 500s] ArgMountOptions.ProtectionPassword = ToUTF8Password (str);
[ 500s] ^
[ 501s] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/veracrypt-1.17/src/Build/Include/Makefile.inc:24: recipe for target 'CommandLineInterface.o' failed
```
Comments: What Linux distribution are you compiling under and which wxWidgets version are you using? It looks like you are using a wxWidgets library that is not using wchar_t as base type but rather char* (UTF-8). This is not the standard wxWidgets configuration. Did you trying building wxWidgets and VeraCrypt using the script at [src/Build/build_veracrypt_linux.sh](https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#src/Build/build_veracrypt_linux.sh)?
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Updated Wiki: Contributed Resources

February 16, 2016, 2:57 pm
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Here you'll find useful resources contributed by VeraCrypt users.

Third party binaries:

Tutorials:

Miscellaneous:

  • vcsteg2.py : a Python script that tries to hide a VeraCrypt volume inside a video file (Steganography)
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New Post: Container opens only in read-only mode

February 16, 2016, 5:24 pm
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Thanks for questions and suggestions.
I've done research prior to asking here. All the files in the volume changed the owner and became read-only.

In short, was able to trace it to whole external drive being somehow reset to read-only. Don't know how yet, looking to change.
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New Post: Container opens only in read-only mode

February 16, 2016, 6:15 pm
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Enigma, thanks for your help.

Finally got it resolved. So basically, somehow the whole external drive got into read-only state.
I used diskpart utility to look at it before, but it didn't show read-only attributes.
This time I just went ahead and cleared readonly attributes and that's it. That actually had done it. So far, at least.
If anyone needs help on how to use it, let me know.
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New Post: VeraCrypt 1.17 for Mac OS X crashed at container mounting time

February 16, 2016, 9:15 pm
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Hi!

I use VeraCrypt 1.17 under Mac OS X 10.11.3. I repeatedly experience the Application crash sometimes (but not every time) I mount a container. It happened with ver. 1.16 too. It happened with TrueCrypt for Mac which I used before I switched to VeraCrypt too, and it crashed more often than VeraCrypt does. It crashed under Mavericks too.

The crash symptoms:
  • I select a container file (not the same file- different ones, both tc and vc containers are "good" for the crash);
  • I enter passphrase;
  • prior to any results of the mounting process the application crashes. A critical error massage window is displayed. The OS, I suppose, tries to launch the XCode debugger and asks to authenticate this process to make changes (enter the administrator credentials) which I did not do as for now, just pressing 'cancel' button;
  • I have to invoke Activity Monitor and Force-quit VeraCrypt (it's marked not responding);
  • When I relaunch VeraCrypt it displays the container as mounted and I can work with it.
It also happened once during a new container creation process.

I can't say exactly how to recreate the crash unfortunately. But if someone could give me a hint and some step-by-step instructions how I can trace back what causes it- perhaps collecting some debugging data or process dumps- I would gladly commence efforts to help to squash the bug.

Thanks and Cheers!!
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New Post: Hidden volume not working for hard disk

February 17, 2016, 1:36 am
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Hello,

I am trying to make a hidden volume in my external hard disk but i run into issues.
In the 'select device' stage, I can only select the 1 (and only) partition of the disk (\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1)
I cannot type any self-chosen file name in any way. if I do or make any changes to the name (\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1) I get an 'cannot access device' when trying to select the outer volume size.

If I use (\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1) and follow through the steps, Verycrypt tells me the hidden volume was succesfully created. However if I then try to open the harddisk (either in windows explorer or with veracrypt) I get a notice the disk is not ready for use and I need to format it first (while I just formatted it right before starting the hidden container process)

Many thanks for your help, it is really appreciated!
Cees
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New Post: Auto-mount slow

February 17, 2016, 6:26 am
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I have one drive partitioned into c:\ & e:\, for system and data respectively. (I've done this as I had issues with VC not allowing W10 to do a big TH2 update and had to decrypt to make it work-thus I only have 50gb and not 1tb do decrypt next time this fails!) I've an AMD A10-87000P aes hardware-accelerated laptop.

c:\ is system-partition encrypted, e:\ is my User drive.

I want to mount the user dive upon any user logon, but if I use 'mount all device-hosted volumes' on startup my takes much longer to boot/log in to each user account. If I start a scheduled task of 'veracrypt /q /s /l e /v \Device\Harddisk0\Partition4' it's much faster and no noticeable slowdown is experienced logging into accounts.

Clearly, VC's ant0-mount feature is the proper way I should be doing this, but I cannot bear the slowdown.

Am I doing something wrong, or should this way be prefereble? I'm using the latest 1.17 version.
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New Post: Hidden volume not working for hard disk

February 17, 2016, 7:38 am
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With the volume dismounted in VeraCrypt, do you still see a drive letter assigned to the volume in Windows Disk Management on the external drive?

If yes, remove the drive letter that Windows assigned to the volume which should now show as RAW format in Disk Management since you formatted the drive/partition using VeraCrypt.
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New Post: Veracrypt Rescue Disc

February 17, 2016, 7:56 am
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Hi !!
First of all, merci pour tout le boulot que vous faites sur ce soft ! Thanks a lot !

I have a question regarding the veracrypt rescue disc, used to rescue an encrypted system disc.
-Is it normal that it is only 1.75 MB ?
-When I open it / mount it, it's totally empty.

So, I tried several methods to "burn it" on a USB flash drive... And it's always failling... Impossible to boot.

Am I the only one to have these issues ?

Thanks a lot... Merci bien

Buddy
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New Post: Veracrypt Mac using Truecrypt identifier

February 17, 2016, 10:20 am
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We have discovered that Veracrypt on Mac has re-used the identifier used by Truecrypt. On Windows this is not the case, the identifier is unique. Because the Mac version is posing as another application, our monitoring software can not tell them apart. Veracrypt needs to use their own identifier instead of posing as Truecrypt.
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Created Unassigned: Commandline Mounting with password not working after 1.17 upgrade. [391]

February 17, 2016, 11:02 am
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Hi everyone,

since v1.17 upgrade from v1.16 the following batch file isn't working anymore to mount a volume:

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\VeraCrypt\VeraCrypt.exe" /hash sha512 /v \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 /ld /p "password" /q

It outputs "Error while parsing the command line"

Any ideas?

Regards

Anhi
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Commented Unassigned: Commandline Mounting with password not working after 1.17 upgrade. [391]

February 17, 2016, 11:14 am
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Hi everyone,

since v1.17 upgrade from v1.16 the following batch file isn't working anymore to mount a volume:

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\VeraCrypt\VeraCrypt.exe" /hash sha512 /v \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 /ld /p "password" /q

It outputs "Error while parsing the command line"

Any ideas?

Regards

Anhi
Comments: Starting with version 1.12 you need to put a space between the /l d instead of /ld
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