Until decrypted, they appear to consist solely of random. VeraCrypt volumes have no 'signature' or ID strings. Windows is able to quick format almost any size with NTFS within seconds, That's because windows just deletes the MBR/GPT table which wipes the metadata about the partitions on the disk but it doesn't overwrite the data. Download RDF metadata Activities Assigned to you: No blueprints or bugs assigned to you. VeraCrypt overwrites all the data on the selected partition unless you tell it not to. Drivers cannot target bugs and blueprints to this milestone. Create a 100 MB file container using the password test and formatted using FAT: 'C:Program FilesVeraCryptVeraCrypt Format.exe' /create c:pathofthevolumetestvolume. I put the process going at around 9 last night, and it was still going as of now at 9:40 am. The format of file-hosted volumes is identical to the format of partition/device-hosted volumes (however, the 'volume header', or key data, for a system partition/drive is stored in the last 512 bytes of the first logical drive track). VeraCrypt Series: trunk Version: 1.24-update7 Released: Registrant: Mounir IDRASSI Release registered: Active: No. So my main questions are, how long should it take to build the file system for a 6TB container, and why does it take this long? Windows is able to quick format almost any size with NTFS within seconds, however it appears that veracrypt is going through the entire container.

How long generally should it take to finish with a quick format? The creation of the container was almost instant using the quick format, however veracyrpt appears to be not responding, although I know its building the NTFS file system. My computer itself is a core i9 with 32GB Memory.

To do the encryption, I have the hard drive hooked in using a USB 3.0 connection port. size '200M' Next up is the password to use to encrypt the volume. The only difference between Veracrypt format and windows format is that Veracrypt is so slow, it writes 25MB/S while windows format writes 300MB/S Jeny - I tried your advice with a container of 11GB and the results are: Quick format: Data written 10. For this demo we are making it small, so will use 200M to indicate 200 Megabytes. Since there is no sensitive data stored with the games, I am encrypting half of the storage for the backup, and the other half will not be. VeraCrypt includes shortcuts for M (Megabytes), G (Gigabytes), T (Terabytes) and K (Kilobytes). This hard drive is going to be connected directly to the router and is going to act as both a backup drive and a location to store digital games accessible from multiple devices on the network. Create Volume Create an encrypted file container Standard VeraCrypt volume Select File -> save to a file on external harddrive (Never save history) Leave. As the title suggests, I recently purchased a new 14TB WD hard drive, which ends up being ~12.7 TB of usable space.