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8 steps of encrypting Flash disk with VeraCrypt

After downloading VeraCrypt for your operating system, open VeraCrypt and click Create Volume to enter VeraCrypt's create Volume Wizard (Volume Creation Wizard).

The VeraCrypt create Volume Wizard (Volume Creation Wizard) allows you to create a new encrypted file container on your flash drive, which is independent of other unencrypted files. Or you can choose to encrypt the entire flash drive. At this time, all you have to do is encrypt the entire flash drive.

Then select the standard mode (Standard VeraCrypt Volume).

Select the drive volume label of the flash drive you want to encrypt (here is O:).

Select create volume mode (Volume Creation Mode). If your flash drive is empty, or if you want to delete everything in it, choose the first one. Either you want to keep all the existing files, just choose the second one.

This step allows you to select encryption options. If you're not sure which one to choose, use the default AES and SHA-512 settings.

After determining the volume capacity, enter and confirm that you want to use the password to encrypt the data.

To work effectively, VeraCrypt takes a random number from an entropy or "random number" pool. To initialize this pool, you will be asked to randomly move the mouse for one minute. Once the progress bar turns green, or more conveniently, when the progress bar is far enough to the right of the screen, click "Format" to finish creating the encrypted disk.

Use encrypted flash drives with VeraCrypt

When you want to use an encrypted flash drive, insert the flash drive into your computer, start VeraCrypt, select an unused volume label (such as Z:), and click Auto Mount device (Auto-Mount Devices).

Enter the password and click OK.

The mount process takes a few minutes, after which your decrypted disk can be accessed through the drive letter you selected earlier.

Installation steps of VeraCrypt removable hard disk

If you set up a flash drive and choose an encrypted container instead of the entire disk, you can choose to create a device that VeraCrypt calls a removable hard drive (Traveler Disk). This will copy and install a VeraCrypt to USB flash drive. When you insert a flash drive into another Windows computer, you can automatically run VeraCrypt; from the USB disk, which means there is no need to install VeraCrypt on the new computer.

You can set the flash drive as a removable hard drive (Traveler Disk) and select the removable hard drive setting (Traveler Disk SetUp) from the VeraCrypt Tools menu.

To run VeraCrypt from a removable hard drive (Traveler Disk), you must have administrator privileges on that computer, which is not surprising. Although this may seem like a restriction, confidential documents cannot be safely opened on uncontrolled computers, such as those in a business center.

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