Warning: When the drive letter assigned to a favorite volume (saved in the configuration file) is not
free, the volume is not mounted and no error message is displayed.
To remove a volume form the list of favorite volumes, select Favorites > Organize Favorite
Volumes, select the volume, click Remove, and click OK.
System Favorite Volumes
System favorites are useful, for example, in the following cases:
You have volumes that need to be mounted before system and application services
start and before users start logging on.
There are network-shared folders located on VeraCrypt volumes. If you configure these
volumes as system favorites, you will ensure that the network shares will be
automatically restored by the operating system each time it is restarted.
You need each such volume to be mounted as the same drive letter each time the
operating system starts.
Note that, unlike the regular (non-system) favorites, system favorite volumes use the pre-boot
authentication password and, therefore, require your system partition/drive to be encrypted (also
note it is not required to enable caching of the pre-boot authentication password). Moreover, since
the pre-boot password is typed using US keyboard layout (BIOS requirement), the password of
the system favorite volume must be entered during its creation process using the US keyboard
layout by typing the same keyboard keys you type when you enter the pre-boot authentication
password. If the password of the system favorite volume is not identical to the pre-boot
authentication password under the US keyboard layout, then it will fail to mount.
When creating a volume that you want to make a system favorite later, you must explicitly set the
keyboard layout associated with VeraCrypt to US layout and you have to type the same keyboard
keys you type when you enter the pre-boot authentication password.
System favorite volumes can be configured to be available within VeraCrypt only to users
with administrator privileges (select Settings > ‘System Favorite Volumes’ > ‘Allow only
administrators to view and dismount system favorite volumes in VeraCrypt’). This option should be
enabled on servers to ensure that system favorite volumes cannot be dismounted by users without
administrator privileges. On non-server systems, this option can be used to prevent normal
VeraCrypt volume actions (such as ‘Dismount All’, auto-dismount, etc.) from affecting system
favorite volumes. In addition, when VeraCrypt is run without administrator privileges (the default on
Windows Vista and later), system favorite volumes will not be displayed in the drive letter list in the
main VeraCrypt application window.
To configure a VeraCrypt volume as a system favorite volume, follow these steps:
1.
Mount the volume (to the drive letter to which you want it to be mounted every time).
2.
Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main VeraCrypt window and select
‘Add to System Favorites’.
3.
The System Favorites Organizer window should appear now. In this window, enable the
option ‘Mount system favorite volumes when Windows starts’ and click OK.
