A list of drives and partitions is displayed and you just select the one you want to encrypt. It is possible to create an encrypted disk inside an encrypted disk for extra security using the Hidden option, but for most people the Standard option is the best one. Select the Standard VeraCrypt volume option. It won’t encrypt drive C:, but it will encrypt any other drive letter. This encrypts extra disks, not the Windows boot disk. There are three options and the one we want is Encrypt a non-system partition/drive. Go to the Tools menu and select Volume Creation Wizard. It just means you have to manually run the program each time you want to use it, rather than it being available all the time. Don’t worry about the messages when the Extract option is used. I avoid installing software whenever possible and choose portable apps over installed ones. There are two options during installation and VeraCrypt can either be installed or extracted. (Linux and Mac versions are also available, although macOS has its own encryption built in, so it’s not really required.) Go to the VeraCrypt website and download the Windows version of the software. It is probably the best free encryption tool you can use.
VeraCrypt is free and open source, and it enables you to create encrypted containers for storing files and to also encrypt the whole disk.
This is a development of the old TrueCrypt encryption program, which came to an end a few years ago. The solution is to use a third party encryption utility such as VeraCrypt. However, not everyone is able to use it because it is limited to the Ultimate, Pro and Business versions of the OS and not the Home editions used by many people.Įncryption is an essential security feature these days and to prevent a large sector of the Windows market from using it is surely wrong.
#Veracrypt whole disk windows 10
Disk encryption has been available in Windows 10 as part of the operating system for years and it is a feature called BitLocker.
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