New Post: Specific Hard Drive Support

OK, I am so desperate for drive space I need to use these disks and I guess I will have to go without the plausible deniability for a while.

Can someone walk me through this please ?

I have connected the drive

opened computer management

Made the disk online

Converted the drive to GPT

The disk correctly shows 3725.90GB

I right click on the unallocated space, select "New simple volume".

Choose the maximum size for the volume in the wizard.

Assign drive letter.

Here is where I get stuck, I am asked if I want to format the partition using NTFS. Do I need to format it if I am going to use VeraCrypt to encrypt the entire partition next ?

Thanks for any help.