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All my hard drives are read only

TWH0523

Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:53:59 pm

I have installed Zorin 15.2.Everything went fine but now I can't write to any of my partitions (internal or external).I have a dual boot system with Windows 8.1. My drives are encrypted with VeraCrypt. I can mount them in windows and copy and paste with no problems. But when I mount them in Zorin I can copy but paste is greyed out, and if I try to drag and drop it doesn't work.
I have run sudo hdparm -r0 on all my drives it gives a 0/0 responce but the drives are still unwritable . this problem makes zorin useless. I need HELP

Swarfendor437

Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:17:59 pm

"In order to be able to automount it, the machine needs to have permanent access to the password for decrypting the encrypted drive. So why bother encrypting it in the first place."

[Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeraCrypt/comm ... _drive_on/]

TWH0523

Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:26:09 pm

I run a dualboot system with Windows 8.1. And before you ask me why I run windows,I have been running microsoft Access for 15 years. and its manditory that I have access to it.