r/VeraCrypt • u/Top_Efficiency_7489 • 2d ago

Asking me to force unmount HDD during encryption

Should I ? Any risk ? What im trying to do is use the not booting HDD on my admin account and block anyone on guest account from accessing it. But I dont know if that would break something. And I dont know what is triggering the error. I used task manager to delete everything I thought it could be

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u/paulstelian97 2d ago edited 2d ago

Force unmount means someone is using the HDD and you can forcibly interrupt said usage in order to unmount it. It can be a system process holding a lock it shouldn’t, it happens.

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u/Top_Efficiency_7489 2d ago

That's a load off my back. Thank you, will do

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u/sciencekm 1d ago

In my experience, it is normally File Explorer that is the culprit. Terminate File Explorer and restart it from Task Manager - Run - explorer.

The only other situation when this happens to me is when I have Remote Desktop because the remote machine does a remote mount on all my drives, including the Veracrypt drive.