Each time I’m inserting a removable USB drive with a file system Windows 10 doesn’t understand, Windows asks me to re-format the drive:    I’m positive I have autoplay turned off everywhere I was able to find, but this message still appears.  Is there a way to disable the message?  Update: I’m not using true crypt. I don’t have “the disk”, instead I have several different SD cards I reformat often, each containing multiple Linux partitions so the “Exact duplicate” solution doesn’t work for me.  Update 2: The “Exact duplicate” solution doesn’t work at all. Linux partitions aren’t raw like TrueCrypt partitions, they are healthy. They don’t have any assigned letters. And the only thing I can do with them in Windows disk management — delete, the rest of the options are grayed out.    Update 3: My question is different. Please read the updates above. The first update explains why it's not a duplicate. The second one explains why the solution to that other question doesn't work, I  even includes a screenshot that shows there's no drive letter and therefore nothing to remove.
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I've started using TrueCrypt to encrypt a partition on an external USB hard drive. I've opted for using a raw partition as opposed to a file container.  But here's the annoyance. Whenever I connect this drive to a computer running Vista or Windows 7, I get the message popup "You need to format the disk in drive J: before you can use it".   The default option is "Format disk", and I'm afraid one of these days I'll accidentally trigger it.  Is there any way to disable this message?
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TrueCrypt on Windows can auto mount volumes that use the same passphrase as the boot volume. You enter the passphrase only once. Is there a way to do this with LUKS?  Background: I'm currently migrating from Windows to Ubuntu. I set up Ubuntu 11.10 with LUKS full disk encryption. I use a second hard drive that is still a TrueCrypt NTFS volume. I want to change that.
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Out of the box, Windows will not allow you to partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive. How can you do this?  In case anyone is wondering Why you would do this?  It's interesting in the case of a  drive where you can take a large thumbdrive (like 4 or 8 GB) and format a small amount of the drive to be used normally as a Fat32 drive and leave the remaining partition encrypted using BitLocker. This allows you to keep some non secret data on the unencrypted partition(like portable apps).
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I'm not even sure if i worded my question right but, I'm familiarizing myself with Ubuntu and want to install it on a new desktop I just finished putting together so I'm trying it on my laptop via live usb first.    I had trouble mounting my NTFS windows partitioned disks, solved that problem but I also see a disk that has the exact amount of memory I alloted for persistence. I try to access it but it shows the same ACL error I got when my NTFS disks weren't mounting.    I've already downloaded some stuff and made some things with LibreOffice and want to know if those things have been save automatically or if I have to mount the usb disk for it to be persistent.
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I am currently running Windows 7.  My User folder is mapped to a different drive then the drive that my OS in installed on.  I mapped the users folder to the other drive while installing windows.    I want to encrypt the whole drive with the "Users" folder.  Is there any way I can use TrueCrypt to encrypt the whole drive, but make it so Windows can still have access to it upon booting?
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I am looking to create a USB flash drive that I can put multiple  ISO images on and select which boots from startup. The ideal candidate supports Linux and Windows-based ISO images, and is relatively simple. It also must have some reasonable process for adding and removing an ISO image from the drive/list.    Things that I'm not looking for in this specific question:    or other swiss-army knife live CDs. The point is to boot any one of multiple CDs, not to boot a (certainly useful) utility CD. Installing a single live CD to a USB drive. I'd like to have multiple ISO images, selectable at startup.   I don't have a specific purpose in mind, possibilties include a single drive with a  variant, Ubuntu desktop, UBCD4Win for DOS, the Offline NT Password Cracker, etc.  Flexible and easy to use are the name of the game!
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Recently in Windows Explorer, a "Local Disk (F:)" Drive appeared and shows 34.2MB free of 449MB, but when I double click on it, Explorer shows no files on this drive. I don't have any idea what this is and I haven't plugged in any USB drives lately, and I don't have any plugged in now. I scanned it for viruses and it was okay. Windows also keeps notifying me that this drive is low on disk space.  Does anyone have any idea what this drive is?  EDIT: Looks like this issue is since the April 30, 2018 update to Windows 10, as detailed .
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When I plug in my external hard drive (again, NOT USB stick), and right click on the icon in This PC, there is no option to eject the drive.     There is a system tray option to "safely eject" it, but that doesn't work at all.     The only way for me to remove it at the moment is to shut down the PC.   I am not looking for a third party solution (cuz they don't work anyway - I've tried a range: Unlocker, the Quickandeasysoftware one, etc..). I've also disabled drive indexing.  And before you mark this as a duplicate almost ALL of the internet / SU articles are either on USB sticks, or on this shutdown method (e.g. )  I just want to know if this is possible (it should be right?), and if so how.
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If I put a USB-drive in, it will automount. I can see it with lsblk  NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdb      8:16   1   7,5G  0 disk  └─sdb1   8:17   1   7,5G  0 part /media/user/usb-drive   If I unmount it with umount  umount /media/user/sdb1   it will still be visible with lsblk, but not mounted any more:  NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdb      8:16   1   7,5G  0 disk  └─sdb1   8:17   1   7,5G  0 part   but if I instead eject it by clicking the eject icon in Thunar (xfce file manager), it will disappear from the list in lsblk. Why is that so?
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Currently, my computer is dual-booting Linux and Windows 7. A series of unfortunate events has led to me needing to restore Windows using a restore disc.  I want to know if this can be done without formatting my entire hard drive, as I don't want to get rid of my Linux partition. That is, I want to reset Windows - which already has a partition on my hard drive - without affecting any of my other partitions on my drive.
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I need to create a file-based TrueCrypt volume in a 32GB USB pendrive. If I wanted to access my files in offline computers, I'd need to include the TrueCrypt executable in the pendrive as well. I'd like to create a multiplatform disk with all the files required to access my encrypted file-based drive from Windows, Linux, and MAC.  TrueCrypt already has an option for this: Options > Traveler Disk Setup (see ). It copies the executable portable app in the (unencrypted) drive, and has an option for including autorun.info files to automate mounting. In linux and MAC versions of TrueCrypt this option is not available I think, but the app can be run in "portable mode". If this worked (never tried), I'd have to include 3 executables in my USB drive: the Windows portable version, the Linux portable version and the MAC portable version.  So my questions:   Will the portable versions work as intended? The Win TrueCrypt executable certainly does, but what about the MAC and Linux versions? Will I need additional configuration in the host OS, permissions or drivers? I've heard that MAC doesn't support writing to NTFS (lmao). Otherwise this is the best filesystem for the pendrive since it is supported in both Windows and Linux. I could use the old FAT32 but it has a limit of 4 GB per file. My TrueCrypt volume needs to be way larger. So to make the drive RW-able in MAC, I've thought in including the NTFS-3G files in the USB, so that I could install them in a MAC machine should the need arise. Is this a good idea? Will I need admin permissions or make extensive configuration changes? (the MAC machine will not be mine, probably a hotel's or an internet cafe one). If #2 is not a good idea, I could partition the drive and include a Linux bootable distro only to cover the MAC case, and use the NTFS partition normally under Win and Linux. But Windows wont then recognise the second partition in a removable drive. I've read this can be overcomed by removing a "removable media bit" and converting the USB drive in a fixed drive. Is this bit stored or flashed in the USB drive, or is it part of the Windows OS configuration? Will all the partitions be recognised without problems in Linux and MAC? And most importantly, can a MAC run a linux live distro? Regarding #3, I've read about a Lexar tool (BootIt) that flips the bit, will this work with a Kingston pendrive?    Thanks in advance.
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A friend of mine recently gave me a laptop that wasn't booting past the Windows screen. I replaced the hard drive with a new one and put the old hard drive in my comp. to try and recover the data.  Windows 7 didn't recognise the main OS partition indicating some filesystem corruption (disk manager showed it as a RAW drive instead of NTFS). Incidentally, the hard drive has two other partitions: the small 100 MB one was fine in Windows and the 10 GB Recovery partition was fine after Windows ran a disk check).  Then I booted up with a Linux live CD (Slax) and the filesystem was recognised fine. However, when trying to copy files, many files would cause errors each one holding up the copy process by about a minute. I'm copying about 120 GB of data with thousands of bad files so this means it takes forever to copy.  There are big files (videos and photos) and small files (documents).  What I need is a way to copy files from a dying HD so:   if a file is bad, it fails silently (not interactively) it fails quickly (&lt; 1 seconds ideally) it optionally deletes the bad file from the destination (not necessary)   so that the process can be done overnight.  Do you know a live CD where copy behaves like that or parameters to cp I can use or the settings for ddrescue I need to use or some other method to do this (I'm a linux noob)?  Alternatively, do you know a way to mount a broken filesystem in Windows (it looks like there are errors in important locations so Windows doesn't recognise it as NTFS). Then I can try xcopy.
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I was reformatting one of my extra hard drives with Windows DiskPart and accidentally selected the wrong hard drive.   I used the clean command, but it wasn't long before I realized I cleaned the wrong one. I only cleaned the drive, I did not format it or tool with it in anyway.   The drive I wiped had two partitions on it, one was unencrypted and the other was encrypted with TrueCrypt. Is it possible to recover my encrypted partition? I do not have a backup of the header, but I've heard it's possible.   If anyone can shed some light on the situation, or point me in the right direction, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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I can't format my pendrive (where ubuntu was loaded as live-usb) . Whenever I do , they say .  This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; please reinitialize layout of the whole device. (udisks-error-quark, 11)  What to do ? I use Disks in Ubuntu 16.04
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There are times after I eject a USB Flash drive, I want to copy some more files over to the USB Flash drive.  In this case, do I always need to unplug the drive and plug it back in?  Is there a way to "reconnect" or "un-eject" the drive?  To eject, that are two ways:   Right click the drive (say H:) and choose Eject   Click "Safely remove hardware" from the icon tool   But there seems to be no way to un-eject or reconnect a drive.
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When I plug in my USB flash drive, it shows up on my computer as write-protected or read-only. I am unable to transfer data to it, nor can I modify or delete any files already stored on it. I also cannot repartition or reformat the drive using Windows Disk Management, DiskPart, GParted, or other tools. The drive does not have a write-protect switch.  Why did this happen and what can I do about it? Is there a way to remove the write protection?  (Note that this can happen with some memory cards, too, as they often use controllers similar to those used in flash drives. In some cases, the system may report that the drive or card was formatted successfully even though it was never actually formatted; the original data reappears when the device is reinserted.)     This question comes up often and the answers are usually the same. This post is meant to provide a definitive, canonical answer for this problem. Feel free to edit the answer to add additional details.
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I am trying to encrypt an entire USB drive with Truecrypt 7.1a. But as long as there is a partition it will only encrypt that. This will make it appear like the USB is full instead of completely empty, which isnt what Im aiming for.   I've tried with DISKPART, USB Partition Tool, and the built-in storage manager. When I delete all partitions, Windows still assigns the drive a letter and assumes that it has a partition covering the whole space.  I know that it is possible as I have done it with another USB, but I just don't remember how I did it.  Ideas?