Note 1: If you need to mount multiple partitions at once, click ‘Auto-Mount Devices’, then
click
‘Mount Options’ and enable the option ‘Mount partition using system encryption
without pre-boot
authentication’.
Please note you cannot use this function to mount extended (logical) partitions that are
located on
an entirely encrypted system drive.
Tools -> Clear Volume History
Clears the list containing the file names (if file-hosted) and paths of the last twenty
successfully
mounted volumes.
Tools -> Traveler Disk Setup
See the chapter Portable Mode.
Tools -> Keyfile Generator
See section Tools -> Keyfile Generator in the chapter Keyfiles.
Tools -> Backup Volume
Header Tools -> Restore
Volume Header
If the header of a VeraCrypt volume is damaged, the volume is, in most cases, impossible to
mount. Therefore, each volume created by VeraCrypt (except system partitions) contains
an embedded backup
header, located at the end of the volume. For extra safety, you can
also create external volume
header backup files. To do so, click Select Device or Select
File, select the volume, select Tools ->
Backup Volume Header, and then follow the
instructions.
Note: For system encryption, there is no backup header at the end of the volume. For non-system
volumes, a shrink operation is done first to ensure that all data are put at the beginning of the
volume, leaving all free space at the end so that we have a place to put the backup header. For
system partitions, we can't perform this needed shrink operation while Windows is running and so
the backup header can't be created at the end of the partition. The alternative way in the case of
system encryption is the use of the Rescue Disk.
Note: A backup header (embedded or external) is not a copy of the original volume header because it
is encrypted with a different header key derived using a different salt (see the section Header Key
Derivation, Salt, and Iteration Count). When the volume password and/or keyfiles are changed, or
when the header is restored from the embedded (or an external) header backup, both the volume
header and the backup header (embedded in the volume) are re-encrypted with header keys
derived using newly generated salts (the salt for the volume header is different from the salt for the
backup header). Each salt is generated by the VeraCrypt random number generator (see the
section Random Number Generator).
Both types of header backups (embedded and external) can be used to repair a damaged
volume
header. To do so, click Select Device or Select File, select the volume, select
Tools -> Restore
Volume Header, and then follow the instructions.
WARNING: Restoring a volume header also restores the volume password that was valid
when the
backup was created. Moreover, if keyfile(s) are/is necessary to mount a volume
