VeraCrypt will drop you back to the main menu and populate the address bar on the bottom with the path to your volume. A window will open up that will allow you to browse to your file or select your drive. On the bottom of the window, click on either Select File… or Select Device… depending on which you created. This is fairly arbitrary, so don’t think too much about it. Mount Your Volumeīack at the main menu, select a drive where you want to mount your volume. The setup will run, format the volume, and give you a message at the end telling you that it’s done. This is the point of no return, so be absolutely certain. When you’re absolutely sure everything is set the way you’d like, click Format. If you’re not going to use FAT, you should probably go with NTFS for Windows machines and EXT4 for Linux. If you’re going to need larger files, tell VeraCrypt now, so you can see other options. The main downside,though, is that it can’t handle files over 4GB. FAT is the file format that you’ll typically find on USB flash drives because it’s fairly universal. This is because it’s go-to format is FAT. VeraCrypt may ask if you need files larger than 4GB. Next, you need to pick a format for either your virtual or actual hard drive/partition. Again, make sure no to lose it for the same reason that losing your password is a bad thing. You can but that keyfile on a flash drive, for example, and plug it in to your computer only when you need to access your volume. A keyfile will act almost like a physical key and will be required to open you volume. If you lose or forget it, you are absolutely screwed. You absolutely need to be sure that you can remember your password. VeraCrypt recommends choosing 20 or more characters. Now, you need to pick a password or phrase. Make sure that it’s going to be enough for everything that you want to store going forward. VeraCrypt will just use the existing drive. If you’re encrypting a hard drive or a partition, this window won’t pop up. If you want to go for overkill, VeraCrypt offers two and three levels of encryption. If you don’t know what you’re doing, select AES and SHA-512. Since encryption is the entire point of using VeraCrypt, this section is pretty important.
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